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With Best Intention: Psychedelic Intention-Setting Rituals as Rites of Sacralization

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This essay assesses the ritual function of psychedelic intention-setting ceremonies, using ethnographic data from Burning Man 2023. The piece argues that intention settings are rites of separation that symbolically sacralize the trip for participants.

Video: Magic in the United States. A conversation with Dr. Heather Freeman

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Gnoseologies host Giovanna Parmigiani speaks with Heather Freeman about her podcast Magic in the United States and the personal and professional journey behind it. Magic in the United States is a podcast examining how magic, religion, spirituality, and...

Video: Wisdom from the Edge: A Conversation with Anthropologist Paul Stoller

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In this conversation with Gnoseologies host Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani, Paul Stoller discusses his latest book, Wisdom From the Edge in which he describes what scholars can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of...

Sexism and the Specter of the Arab/Muslim Man. The Case of the Law Against Sexism in Belgium

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This paper begins by considering Femme de la rue (2012), a documentary on sexual harassment in the streets of a neighborhood marked as Arab and considered to be a rough neighborhood in the dominant mental map of Brussels, Belgium. Femme de la rue provoked...

Reinventing Religion: Ancient Egypt in the European History of Religion

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As the study of religion moved into the domain of cultural studies, there came a shift in the subjects of research.Scholars no longer focused solely on so-called world religions but also looked at the interplay between religion and culture in a broader...