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Anyone interested in writing an article on the response to Facebook and Instagram being down? There is a feeling of religious devotion to social media in the air.
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Need something to do while Meta is down? Check out our new Excellent Excerpt featuring Don Grant's Nursing the Spirit sacredmattersmagazine.com/ex…

Excellent Excerpts: Nursing the Spirit by Don Grant

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:...

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You can also learn more about Don through our Seven Questions series sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-…

7 Questions with Don Grant

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...

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New excerpt AND a new interview? Happy Wednesday everyone! Check out Vivalid Jean-Marie's Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness here-- sacredmattersmagazine.com/ex…

Excellent Excerpts: An Ethos of Blackness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie

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:...

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The book "provides a detailed elaboration of the norms, culture, religious practices, and epistemological boundaries of Rastafari in order to argue that they are advancing Rastafari’s distinctive postcolonial ideals of Blackness for people of African descent."
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And you can read Vivaldi's interview here: sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-…

7 Questions with Vivaldi Jean-Marie

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...

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We loved hearing from Daniel Shank Cruz about their book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature. Check out the interview here: sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-…

7 Questions with Daniel Shank Cruz

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...

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📰New excerpt alert!📰 Check out Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji sacredmattersmagazine.com/ex…

Excellent Excerpts: Rebuilding Community by Shenila Khoja-Moolji

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:...

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From the excerpt: "Ultimately, Rebuilding Community reframes the ordinary ethical practices of displaced women as the concrete spatiotemporal events that form religious community. In the process, we also learn about placemaking after displacement and re-evaluate care work."
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Sacred drug matters. fortune.com/well/2023/07/17/…

The 'psychedelic renaissance' is big business, but a religion scholar says humans—and animals—have...

Siberian reindeer are known to take hallucinogenic mushrooms, but our ancestors took psychoactive nightshade roughly 3,000 years ago.

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Anyone have #BooksWorthReading they want to share with us? We love a good book with its own peculiar twists and takes on what religion even means in the 21st century
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We love getting to know the author behind the book. In this article, we got to learn about Katri Ratia and her recent book, Alternative Spirituality, Counterculture, and European Rainbow Gatherings: Pachamama, I’m Coming Home. Check it out here: sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-…

7 Questions with Katri Ratia

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 Katri Ratia, whose book...

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If you have an upcoming book and want it to be featured through our Excellent Excerpts or 7 Questions series, let us know!
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Sneak peek: my book, Vodou en Vogue with @UNC_Press was just featured in @SacredMatters ! Check it out! sacredmattersmagazine.com/ex…

Excellent Excerpts: Vodou en Vogue by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

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 Vodou en Vogue:...

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All the religion news that’s unfit to print Sacrilegious, with Gary Laderman A podcast that explores religious and spiritual life in other terms, and seeks to turn your understanding of religion...

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Excellent Excerpts: Gendered Fortunes by Zeynep K. Korkman

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 Gendered Fortunes:...

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Latest podcast posted and playable. sacredmattersmagazine.com/po…
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I was interviewed for this one about a year ago. Fascinating article but very much a “long read.” One of the very few times I had a fact checker call me to check on quotes so that was fun too. longreads.com/2022/10/25/dea…

The Death Artist - Longreads

Her medium: the cremains of departed loved ones. Her mission: to change your perspective on the end of life.

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