Researcher Reflections

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Recognized as the founder of Shingi Shingon Buddhism in Japan and occupying a critical and unique position in East...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Photos of the séance medium Mina Crandon (1888–1941), known publicly as Margery, are among the most shocking images...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. “Your name shall live; your deeds shall be your legacy. Your legacy: your immortality,” the goddess Ishtar says...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. In the fall of 2018, I attended the San Francisco Bay Area Awakened Futures Summit, which brought together the so...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. There is a saying in Sāmoa: E iloa le Samoa i lana tu, savali ma tautala. “You know a Sāmoan by the way they stand...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. In The Therīgāthā—The Poems by Early Buddhist Nuns, a woman known only as Sumangala’s Mother reaches the moment of...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. “We are not Greeks,” writes Isadora Duncan, “and therefore cannot dance Greek dances. But the dance of the future...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Christian late antiquity—austere saints and ascetics, glittering mosaics, Christian emperors, and theologians such...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. The first evening of the retreat in Sedona, the so-called North American capital of alternative spiritualities...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Certain Bible quotations speak forcefully against “pagans” and “witches,” sometimes even justifying their being...