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  [### Universal Blackness among the Muridiyya and Its Artists

 ](/news/2026/06/15/universal-blackness-among-muridiyya-and-its-artists) June 15, 2026 

 Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Francesco Piraino, Tenure-track Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Director of the Center for... 

 

 

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   [### It Loves To Happen

 ](/news/2026/06/04/it-loves-happen) June 04, 2026 

 Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. I am a painter. The first thing I do in any new studio is to write—in tiny pencil letters, in a corner or by the... 

 

 

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   [### Knowledge Like Life-Giving Rain 

 ](/news/2026/06/01/knowledge-life-giving-rain) June 01, 2026 

 Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Imagine living in a world where you are told that most of what is around you is only an opaque refraction of true... 

 

 

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   [### Aryavarta, Land of the Noble Ones 

 ](/news/2026/06/01/aryavarta-land-noble-ones) June 01, 2026 

 Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. In 1891, readers of a small American journal called The Path encountered an article by a Jodhpur pandit titled... 

 

 

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   [### The Childless Ascetic 

 ](/news/2026/05/26/childless-ascetic) May 26, 2026 

 Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. When I was seven years old, through songs and poems, my teacher, a widow, instilled in me an awareness of the... 

 

 

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