Researcher Reflections

Warhammer 40K player-painters engage a sequence of contexts in order to paint successfully and enter flow states while painting.

“Healing practices must be studied in local contexts, informed by local histories, practices, and phenomena.”

“Assyrian folk chants such as Rawe transmit narratives sharing the memories of our culture enduring countless storms, carrying our resilience and survival, connecting us to our ancestors and ancient past.”

“Any religious tradition can affect decadent forms of practice. We must remain vigilant of the ways religion’s excesses negatively impact our pursuit of political unity amid our diverse cultural contexts and identities. For all political claims are...

Gospel thrillers traffic in hyperbole and distortion, but behind these outlandish conspiratorial plotlines lies a real undercurrent of anxiety about biblical vulnerability.

“Religion, I would argue, ought not to be a functional aspect of social norms, but a method to escape the ordinary world.”

The rituals associated with the numerous òrìṣà traditions in the Yoruba cosmology allow practitioners to experience the àṣẹ (agential power, energy, nature, or authority) of the òrìṣà which over time has a strong and formative effect on every dimension of...