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In Memoriam: Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017)
Jonathan Z. Smith delivers his plenary address at the 2010 Annual Meeting…
Read MoreFemale Graduate Students, Power Dynamics, and Work-Life Balance
To contribute to the ongoing discussions initiated by the Committee on the…
Read MoreInterview with Lynn Neal, 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan: 2017 Marty Award Winner
The AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion is pleased to…
Read MoreTeaching the Paranormal and the Occult: Editor’s Introduction
Walk into a classroom early and you might overhear students talking about…
Read MoreReligious Education and the Paranormal: Reflections of Discussing Anomalous Experiences in the Classrooms
Introduction For a while now I have been thinking of different ways…
Read MoreReflecting on the Occult: Nurturing “Critical Being” through Exposure to Marginal or Controversial Ideas
What’s Important about the Occult for Critical Thinking? “Critical thinking” is a…
Read MoreHaunting the Religious Studies Classroom
From Ghosts to Haunting At the outset of my “Haunting and Healing”…
Read MoreTeaching Demonology, Possession, and Exorcism in Texas
Introduction I am an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State,…
Read MoreExperiencing Occult/Paranormal/Spiritual Phenomena in the Classroom
Experience as a Way of Knowing In both my “Sociology of Religion”…
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