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Video: New Voices in Poetry: Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan

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On April 10, 2023, Sherah Bloor, editor of the Peripheries Journal at the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted three exciting new voices in poetry. Bloor invited Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan to discuss their latest works...

Video: THE WORD DROPPED LIKE A STONE: Sacred Poetics Under the Reign of the Money God

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Today the great weapon used to stifle critical thinking is a raw overwhelm of meaningless language at every turn—on our phones, on our TV’s, in our periphery on billboards and subways. So often the language is passionately absolute: immigrants are evil...

Psychedelic Churches and Secular Forces

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Vegetal Realism: Toward an Ethical Engagement with Plant Life in Contemporary Art

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Video: Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings

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Catherine Brekus, HDS Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, discusses her recent publication, Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings. David Holland (HDS) and Margaret Bendroth serve as respondents. FULL TRANSCRIPT: Good evening...

God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

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God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

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Building on Derrida’s essay Plato’s Pharmacy, the current article examines sacred versus profane illuminations within the spiritual realm of Judaism. As exemplified by the marking nut (balādhur), the author surveys exoteric-curative and esoteric-altered...

Expectancy and Hope in MDMA-Assisted Therapy

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Video: The Spider Dance Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy

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A book talk with Giovanna Parmigiani, on her new book The Spider Dance: Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy

The Legal Definition of Religion in the Context of Modern Religious Exercise with Psychedelics: Protection, Double Standards, and Potential Expansion under RFRA

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In the United States, the convergence of religious freedom and the prohibition of controlled substances is legally complex, increasing, and evolving. As interest in psychedelic religious practices expands, legal protection of religious exercise pursuant...

Audio: Pop Apocalypse: Monsters, Fictional Worlds, and the Repressed Supernatural—A Talk with Victoria Nelson

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For our fourth episode, we welcome the acclaimed novelist and scholar Victoria Nelson. Nelson is the academic doyen of what is today labeled Occulture Studies. Her first monograph on the supernatural in popular culture, The Secret Life of Puppets (2001)...

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Video: New Voices in Poetry: Tawanda Mulalu, Isabel Duarte-Gray, and Jess Yuan

Video: THE WORD DROPPED LIKE A STONE: Sacred Poetics Under the Reign of the Money God

Psychedelic Churches and Secular Forces

Vegetal Realism: Toward an Ethical Engagement with Plant Life in Contemporary Art

Video: Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings

God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

Expectancy and Hope in MDMA-Assisted Therapy

Video: The Spider Dance Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy

The Legal Definition of Religion in the Context of Modern Religious Exercise with Psychedelics: Protection, Double Standards, and Potential Expansion under RFRA

Audio: Pop Apocalypse: Monsters, Fictional Worlds, and the Repressed Supernatural—A Talk with Victoria Nelson