Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Ethan Doyle White, whose book, The New Witches of the West, was recently published with Cambridge University Press. Get to Know Ethan Dr Ethan Doyle White is a historian and scholar of religion with a PhD in medieval history and archaeology from University College London (UCL). Among his varied research interests are mode...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Joseph Laycock, whose co-authored book, The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief, was recently published with Oxford University Press. Get to Know Joseph Joseph P. Laycock is an associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University. He is the author of several books including Speak of the D...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers by Don Grant, published May 2023 with Columbia University Press. You can learn more about Don in our interview series here. Summary Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spiritualit...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Don Grant, whose book Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers was recently published with Columbia University Press. You can also check out an excerpt of his book here. Get to Know Don Don Grant is Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez, published with Cambridge University Press. Book Synopsis: If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, The Gut delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Can...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie, published September 2023 with Columbia University Press. You can learn more about Vivaldi in our interview with him here. Book Synopsis: Vivaldi Jean-Marie examines Rastafari’s core beliefs and practices, arguing that th...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness was published with Columbia University Press this September. You can read our excerpt of the book here. Get to Know Vivaldi Vivaldi Jean-Marie teaches in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at ...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Daniel Shank Cruz, whose book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature was recently published with Penn State University Press. Get to Know Daniel Daniel Shank Cruz (they/multitudes) is a queer disabled boricua who grew up in the Bronx and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They have an MFA i...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji, published July 2023 with Oxford University Press. From the Introduction [Atlanta, Georgia, 2019. The phone rings.] Farida, in Urdu: Hello, kaisay ho (How are you)? [Farida lis...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Zeynep Korkman, whose book Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey was published with Duke University Press this April. You can check out our excerpt of it here. Get to Know Zeynep Zeynep K. Korkman is an assistant professor of Gender Studies at UCLA. Her research interests include tran...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
