Giovanna Parmigiani
Giovanna Parmigiani
Why do people find conspiracy theories attractive, convincing, or useful? In this article, I analyze conspirituality-that is, the relationships between New Age spirituality and conspiracy theories-in Italy during the COVID-19 lockdown. Afte...
Constance M Furey
Constance M Furey
Attention to bodies has transformed the study of religion in the past thirty years, aiding the effort to overcome the discipline's Protestant biases by shifting interest from beliefs to practices. And yet much of this work has unwittingly p...
Thomas B Ellis
Thomas B Ellis
Hard-core Tantric practice is disgusting, a point several scholars make. Scholarly interpretations of Tantric disgustingness, however, tend to follow the lead of Mary Douglas in suggesting that what disgusts is ultimately a reflection of so...
Countercurrents from the West: “blue-eyed” Zen masters, Vipassanā meditation, and Buddhist psychotherapy in contemporary Korea [0.03%]
西方逆流：当代韩国的“蓝眼”禅师、内观禅修与佛教心理治疗
Ryan Bongseok Joo
Ryan Bongseok Joo
One surprising and yet relatively unknown aspect of contemporary Korean Buddhism is the significant influence of American and European Buddhism. Between 1989 and 2009, South Koreans witnessed well-educated “blue-eyed” monastic residents v...
Dianomy: understanding religious women's moral agency as creative conformity [0.03%]
善谧亦我：理解宗教女性道德主体性的创造性顺应性
Elizabeth M Bucar
Elizabeth M Bucar
This essay seeks to contribute to work on moral agency of religious women through the creative naming of a dynamic that is emerging in recent scholarship. Drawing on fieldwork in Iran in 2004, I argue that prominent models of agency based o...
Toward an alternative evolutionary theory of religion: looking past computational evolutionary psychology to a wider field of possibilities [0.03%]
迈向宗教的替代进化理论：超越计算进化心理学，展望更广阔的可能性领域
Nathaniel F Barrett
Nathaniel F Barrett
Cognitive science of the last half-century has been dominated by the computational theory of mind and its picture of thought as information processing. Taking this picture for granted, the most prominent evolutionary theories of religion of...
Teresa Urrea: Mexican mystic, healer, and apocalyptic revolutionary [0.03%]
特eresa乌雷阿：墨西哥女神秘主义者、治疗师和末世革命者
Alex Nava
Alex Nava
This article is a study of the mystical and apocalyptic dimensions of Teresa Urrea. As explained in this article, Urrea’s mystical experiences and visions are unique for their connection with a propheticapocalyptic and political worldview....