# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 367 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 367 results [### 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... ![Woman in black headscarf and black robes sitting at a table in front of a pile of salt or white substance with blue tablecoth looking at the other end of the table where there is a table fan facing her.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Annunciation-Salt%20%20Wind%202016%20%C2%A9Mai%CC%88mouna%20Guerresi%20.jpg?itok=WRBxTgVC) [### 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... ![Painting of man with head bursting with colors](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Picture1.PrettymanRR_0.jpg?itok=qFKMY4py) [### 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... ![Mountain ranges one behind the other, clouds and soft light](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/iStock-2262008729.jpg?itok=B70MLf5a) [### 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... ![ Helena Blavatsky reading a book](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/HPB_reading_book_JPEG.jpg?itok=Za5BtXue) [### 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... ![A group of sadhus walking on the street, some carrying sticks](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/P4110128_%D0%90.jpg.resize.jpg?itok=ongq7Qi2) [### How Psychedelic Science Invented a History of Religion ](/news/2026/05/26/how-psychedelic-science-invented-history-religion) May 26, 2026 Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. It is challenging for me to imagine a time before the concept of “the psychedelic” existed, despite its emergence... ![Lab desk with magnifying glass, scrolls, plant specimens, and tinctures](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/iStock-1185392487.jpg?itok=Kww27Y3j) [### Cultivating Ecological Vision: Thoreau, Emerson, and Goethe ](/news/2026/05/13/cultivating-ecological-vision-thoreau-emerson-and-goethe) May 13, 2026 By Ryan Shea | Edited by Russell C. Powell An encompassing ecological vision may be one of our best hopes not only for a healthy and habitable future, but also for a wise and worthwhile present. Such an ecology cannot be less than a science, but it can... ![Poppy](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/papaver_0.jpg?itok=CXwFOVaX) [### End-of-Year Letter from Director Charles M. Stang ](/news/2026/05/13/end-year-letter-director-charles-m-stang) May 13, 2026 Dear Colleagues and Friends, As this academic year draws to a close, I find myself reflecting with gratitude on the extraordinary vitality, intellectual ambition, and creative breadth that have animated the Center for the Study of World Religions over the... [Charles M. Stang](/people/charles-stang) ![Charles Stang](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/Charles%20Stang%20Cover_0.png?h=386c6167&itok=li33wXqX) [### The Literary Gods of Roberto Calasso ](/news/2026/05/13/literary-gods-roberto-calasso) May 13, 2026 Nicholas Low is a Research Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School and a Fellow, Center for Theory and Research, Esalen Institute The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic... [Nicholas Low](/people/nicholas-low) ![Image of a man wearing a red robe, writing something](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Saint_Jerome_Writing-Caravaggio_%281605-6%29.jpg?itok=V4HGgYNl) [### Transcendentalism and the Politics of Failure ](/news/2026/04/29/transcendentalism-and-politics-failure) April 29, 2026 By Russell C. Powell A mystery is announced—heralded, really—toward the end of the first episode of Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers’ new three-part documentary film Henry David Thoreau , produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley, which was released... ![Thoreau grave](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Thoreau%20grave.jpeg?h=f65bc681&itok=iY_7G66W) [### Video: The Invisible Sun: Poetry, Translation, and the Mystical Imagination ](/news/2026/04/29/video-invisible-sun-poetry-translation-and-mystical-imagination) April 29, 2026 CSWR Poetry Series: With Sholeh Wolpé The Invisible Sun is the first comprehensive English collection of poetry by the twelfth-century Persian mystic Attar, revered by Rumi as his master. Translated by award-winning poet Sholeh Wolpé, this luminous... ![Title card for The Invisible Sun](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/YT%20Thumbnail.Poetry.Sholeh%20Wolpe%CC%81.png?itok=QHnu_TPZ) [### Video: Om-gnosis Episode 20: Comparing Magic, Yoga, and Occultism ](/news/2026/04/24/video-om-gnosis-episode-20-comparing-magic-yoga-and-occultism) April 24, 2026 In this episode of Om-gnosis, Keith Edward Cantú speaks with Gordan Djurdjevic, an independent scholar and author who writes about global esotericism, South Asian yoga and tantra, and comparative religion. As the author of the books India and the Occult... ![Title card for Episode 20](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/omgnosis%20Youtube%20thumbnail-39.png?itok=ZXKatpKL) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 31 ](?page=30 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")