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Universal Blackness among the Muridiyya and Its Artists

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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...

It Loves To Happen

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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...

Finding Meaning in Secular Times

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Listen to the full conversation on YouTube or Spotify. For a related discussion, watch the recording of Mark Vernon’s conversation with Professor Charles Stang at “William Blake and the Power of Imagination,” a recent event hosted by Wonderstruck and the...

Botanical Journeys

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ASC: How did you start your career as a botanical artist? What are your influences? DT: When I started painting, plants felt like a natural subject because of my experience of nature in Miami and Colombia. I was also interested in shamanism, and through...

Imagining Atlantis in the Americas

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Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey. The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Few myths have traveled as far or taken as many forms as the story of Atlantis. Since its appearance in Plato’s...

Superstar: The Psychedelic Jesus of the Counterculture

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"While Jesus People rejected drug culture, I suggest that the modes of religious experience they favored owe a significant debt to the discourse and phenomenology of psychedelics. Examples include the experiential immediacy of their Jesus 'encounters,'...

Esoteric Transgression in Modern and Contemporary Art

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Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. In the last 20 years, the art world has shown a growing interest in esoteric and occult themes. Large exhibitions...