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Teaching 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”…
Read MoreTeaching and Learning from the Uncertainties of Occult Phenomena
The Séance as a Teaching Event There are many ways one could…
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Astin, Alexander W., Helen S. Astin, and Jennifer A. Lindholm. 2011. Cultivating…
Read MoreAaron Hughes’s “Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast” and the Man I Knew
Aaron W. Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast New York, NY:…
Read MoreJoining Religion to Public Policy Conversations: The AAR-Luce Fellowship in Religion And International Affairs
Photo: Former US Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Pope Francis,…
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