Books and Monographs
Aschenbrenner, Lina. Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics. Embodied Transformation in the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga. Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2023.
CantĂș, Keith. Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and ĆivarÄjayoga. New York: Oxford University Press 2023.
Hayes, Kelly E. Spirits of the Space Age. The Imagined World of Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn. Oxford University Press 2023
Lackner, Michael. Gulangyu. Facetten einer Insel, Ostasien-Verlag 2023 (with Ruijing Qiu and the collaboration of Dorothee Schaab-Hanke).
Lackner, Michael. Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China (ed. with Lu Zhao), Leiden: Brill (HdO) 2022.
Lackner, Michael. Le prime traduzioni latine del âGiusto mezzoâ (Zhongyong äžćșž), (with an introduction by Giuseppe Portogallo and an preface by Tiziana Lippiello), Piazza Armerina, 2022.
Menzel, Birgit with Michael Hagemeister, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, ed.: ÎÏ ÏÏÎčÎșÎź ÎĄÏÏία. ÎÏÎżÎșÏÏ ÏÎčÏÏÎčÎșÎÏ ÎșαÎč ΔÏÏÏΔÏÎčÎșÎÏ ÎŽÎčαÏÏÎŹÏΔÎčÏ (The New Age of Russia. Occult and Esoteric Dimensions, Munich: Kubon&Sagner 2012), ArchĂ©tipo publ., Thessaloniki, 2023, translated by Viktoras PseftĂĄkis. https://biblionet.gr/titleinfo/?titleid=280034
Menzel, Birgit with Anna Tessmann, ed.: New Age and Esoteric Milieus in the Soviet Period and Afterwards, LIT Verlag MĂŒnster, 2024.
MĂŒller, Dominik M., with Marie-Claire Foblets / Katayoun Alidadi. Redesigning Justice for Plural Societies: Case Studies of Minority Accommodation from around the Globe. Routledge 2023.
Stoller, Paul. Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times. Cornell
University Press 2023.
Stoller, Paul. Translation of The Taste of Ethnographic Things into Portuguese. (O gusto dos coisas etnograficas. Rio de Janeiro: Papeis Selvagens 2022.
Guest-Edited Special Issues of Journals
CantĂș, Keith. âMantras for Every God and Goddess: Folk Religious Ritual in the Literature of Sabhapati Swami,â in Living Folk Religions, ed. Aaron Ullrey and Sravana Borkataky-Varma (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).
Hirmer Monika (ed) (2024). Vernacular Cultures of South Asia. Special issue Decolonial Subversions 2023-2024. http://decolonialsubversions.org/special_issue_2024.html
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (ed) (2024). Los ritos ganaderos amerindios cincuenta años despuĂ©s. Special issue allpanchis. Revista de Estudios Andinos 51(93). https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/issue/view/148
Chapters in Books, Edited Volumes, Encyclopedias, Handbooks
Burkhardt, Stefanie (2024). “‘âŠand we have fallen apart:’ Vom Zerfallen, Verschieben und Aushandeln von Grenzen in Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart,” in Klaus Hock, Claudia Jahnel, and Klaus-Dieter Kaiser (eds), Mission in Film und Literatur. Band 2: GrenzĂŒberschreitungen: Plots â Akteur:innen â Kontexte. Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft fĂŒr Theologie (VWGTh), 72. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 167â176.
Errichiello, Mariano. âParsis and Ritual Innovation: Zoroastrian Funerary Practices in Mumbai during the Pandemic.â In CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, ed. E. Z. Hertzman, N. Lang, E. M. Larson, and C. Lorea (Honolulu: University of Hawaiâi Press, 2023), 115-120.
Errichiello, Mariano. âThe Key of Ilme KáčŁnum to Understand the Zoroastrian Religion (jarthoĆthÄ« dharm samajavÄ mÄáče ilme káčŁnumÄ« cÄvÄ«).â Database of Religious History (Vancouver: University of British Columbia), 2023 (https://religiondatabase.org/browse/1552/#/).
Gesterkamp, Lennert. âJin Quanzhen daoshi Song Defang Piyun zhenren de xiaoxiang yanjiu éć šçé棫ćźćŸ·æčæ«éČçäșșçèćç 究â (A Study on the Portaits of the Jin Dynasty Daoist Master Song Defang, Perfected Who Cloaks the Clouds). In preparation for Quanzhen daojiao meishu: tuxiang, kongjian, guannian ć šçéæçŸèĄïŒććăç©șéăè§ćż” , ed. Sun Bo ćć, Quanzhen Daoist Art: Images, Space, and Concepts 2023.
Lackner, Michael. ââVie conjointeâ ou âreprĂ©sentation ordinaireâ? Goethe et Hegel sur le rapport des Chinois Ă la natureâ. in: Tagungsband zu âGoethe â LâactualitĂ© dâun inactuelâ, Paris: Ăditions Hermann 2022, pp. 371-377.
Lackner, Michael. âA credulous skeptic: Ji Yun on mantic arts and spirit-writingâ, in Communicating with the Gods:Spirit-Writing in Chinese Culture, ed. Matthias Schumann, Elena Valussi. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Lackner, Michael. âIntroductionâ. in: Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China, Leiden, ed. Michael Lackner and Lu Zhao, Brill 2022, pp. 1-26.
Lackner, Michael. âMoral Economies of Divination: Chinese and African Technologies, Ethics, Wisdom, and Affectâ, with Raquel Romberg. CAS-E edited volume II (in preparation).
Lackner, Michael. A credulous skeptic: Ji Yun on mantic arts and spirit-writingâ, in Spirit-Writing in Chinese Culture, ed. Matthias Schumann, Elena Valussi, Leiden: Brill 2023, 291-310.
MĂŒller, Dominik M. âThe Shaping of Islam in Brunei Darussalamâ. in Routledge Handbook of Islam in Southeast Asia. ed. Syed Muhammad Khairudin Aljunied, London: Routledge, 2022.
Nehring, Andreas. âMind the Body â Mindfulness Meditation as a Spiritual Practice between Neuroscience, Therapy and Self-Awarenessâ, in The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning. ed. Kraus, Anja and Wulf, Christoph. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 383-402.
Nehring, Andreas. âHeilige Namen-Namen der Heiligenâ, in Glauben Lehren: Festschrift fĂŒr Wolfgang Schobert, ed. Hamilton, Nadine, Steve Hamilton and Martin Hailer. Leipzig 2023.
Nehring, Andreas. âSpiritualitĂ€t im religiösen Pluralismus â Postkoloniale Interventionenâ, in SpiritualitĂ€t. Theologische und humanwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, ed. Allolio-NĂ€cke, Lars und Bubmann, Peter, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2022. 47-62.
Nehring, Andreas. âUnboxing GaáčeĆa â Oder: E-DarĆan is no DarĆanâ, in Das Verborgene sehen: Sinnsuche zwischen Medien, Religion und Ethik, ed. GĂŒrtler, Christian and Endres, Susanne. Erlangen: CPV 2022.
Otto, Bernd-Christian (ed.). âWestern learned magic as an entangled traditionâ, special issue of Entangled Religions 14/3 (2023). Open access: https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/10299/9908
Otto, Bernd-Christian. âMagicâ, in: Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, publ. October 31, 2022https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm004.pub2.
Stoller, Paul. âJabes Among Songhay Sorcerersâ. in Philosophy on Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis, ed. N. Burbant and T. Schwarz Wentzer. New York: Routledge 2023, pp. 178-93.
Menzel, Birgit (2023). “Vasily V. NalimovâA Scientist, Philosopher and ‘Mystical Anarchist’ from Komi,” in Manon Hedenborg White and Tim RudbĂžg (eds), Esotericism and Deviance. Boston: Brill, 225â242.
Stoller, Paul (2024). “Eye and Mind Revisited: the Work of Art in Anthropology,” in Devaka Premawardhu and Don Seeman (eds), Between Life and Thought: Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion (Chapter 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Stoller, Paul (forthcoming July 2024). “A Parable of the Footbridge: Creativity and Change in the In-Between,” in Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold (eds), Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process. London and New York: Berghahn Books, 48-62.
Stoller, Paul (forthcoming July 2024).  “Jabes Among Songhay Sorcerers,” in Eva von Roekel and Fiona Murphy (eds), A Collection of Creative Anthropologies: Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories. New York:  Palgrave.
Articles, Papers, Reviews in Journals
Aschenbrenner, Lina. âAesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga.â 2023, Preprint. SoArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ezvf5
Aschenbrenner, Lina. âIntroduction: On Material and Embodied Power Dynamics and Religion.â Material Religion, February 2023, 1â3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2170108
Chophel, Dendup, and J. Phuntsho. âBuddhism and Modernity: Fourth International Vajrayana Conference â An Analytical Reportâ. Journal of Global Buddhism 24(1) 2023: 47â53. https://doi.org/10.26034/lu.jgb.2023.3409
Chophel, Dendup. âBhutan: The Unremembered Nation. Vols. 1&2. (Book review)â. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2023.2213542
Chophel, Dendup. âPunctuating âHappinessâ: Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and the Agenda-Setting of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Policy in Bhutanâ. in Review of Policy Research, 00, 2023, ed. L. Ugyel, M. Givel and D. Chophel. 1â17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12559
Errichiello, Mariano. âBeyond the Theosophical Paradigm: Ilme káčŁnum and the Entangled History of Modern Parsisâ. Journal of Persianate Studies (2024) 1â25. https://brill.com/view/journals/jps/aop/article-10.1163-18747167-bja10039/article-10.1163-18747167-bja10039.xml
Graw, Knut (2023). “Migration, Anthropology, and Voice. Notes on a West African Memory,” in Commoning Ethnography Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.26686/ce.v5i1.6835
Gyimesi, JĂșlia (2024). “A misinterpreted psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and his theory of symbol-formation,” in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 60, e22289. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22289
Herrmans, Isabell. Review Essay: In the Shadow of the Palms. Inside Indonesia, 2023. http:/www.insideindonesia.org/review-essay-in-the-shadow-of-the-palm
Isrtatii, Romina and Monika Hirmer (2024). “The Role of Language in Diversifying Knowledge Production: Reflecting on the Experience of Decolonial Subversions as a Multilingual Publishing Platform,” in Victoria Odeniyi and Gillian Lazar (eds), Decolonial Subversions Special Issue: Decolonising the university and the role of linguistic diversity, 77â95. http://decolonialsubversions.org/special_issue_2023.html
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier(2023). “Ethnography and sound: recent methodological efforts in a strongly patrimonialised space,” in Sound Studies, 9:1, 114-116, https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2022.2163800
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (2023). “Cushing, Frank Hamilton. 2022. Tenatsali ou lâethnologue qui fut transformĂ© en Indien. Editado por Patrick PĂ©rez et FrĂ©dĂ©ric Saumade. Traducido por ĂlĂ©onore Devevey. Paris: CNRS Ăditions,” in AnuĂĄrio AntropolĂłgico, v.48 n.2 | -1, 194-198. https://doi.org/10.4000/aa.11114
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (2023). “Vinciane Despret, La Danse du cratĂ©rope Ă©caillĂ©. Naissance dâune thĂ©orie Ă©thologique,” in LâHomme, 245, 161-163. https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.46211
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (2023). “Reseña de: MUĂOZ MORĂN, Oscar (ed.): Ensayos de etnografĂa teĂłrica: Andes. (Madrid: Nola, 2021), 412 pp.” in Disparidades. Revista De AntropologĂa, 78(2), r025. https://dra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/dra/article/view/1042
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (2023). “Vilaça, Aparecida: PaletĂł and Me. Memories of My Indigenous Father. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 219 pp.” in Anthropos 118(1), 285-286. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2023-1-285
Menzel, Birgit. Eurasia as a Spiritual Realm? Inquiries into an Imagined Continent, in: Journal of Comparative Studies(Daugavpils), volume 43, issue 15, 32â 58
Menzel, Birgit. Review: Dieter Vaitl (ed.), An den Grenzen unseres Wissens. Von der Faszination des Paranormalen, Freiburg: Herder, 2020 (544p.) in: ARIES â Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, No. 2, 301â305 (doi:10.1163/15700593-20221002)
Menzel, Birgit. Review: Kirsten Bönker: Television and Political Communication in the Late Soviet Union, London: Lexington Books, 2020 for JahrbĂŒcher fĂŒr die Geschichte Osteuropas.
Menzel, Birgit. Vasily V. Nalimov â A Scientist, Philosopher and âMystical Anarchistâ from Komi, in: Proceedings of the 6th International ESSWE-Conference in Erfurt, ed. Tim Rudbog and Manon Hedenborg-White, Boston: Brill (2024, in print). DOI:10.1163/9789004681040_012
Menzel, Birgit. Witold KoĆny (1937â2022) â ein persönlicher Nachruf, in: Zeitschrift fĂŒr Slawistik 2023, 68(4): 1â3. https://doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2023-0036
Nehring, Andreas, Postkoloniale herausforderungen an Religionswissenschaft. Interkulturelle Theologie und Missionswissenschaft, in: ZMR, Vol, 197, 2023, 135-142.
Nehring, Andreas. Review: âThe middle thingsâ. Differentiating between the religious spheres in mission contexts in the 18th and 19th centuries. 2023.
Nehring, Andreas. Review: Ulrich Harlass (2021). Die orientalische Wende der Theosophischen Gesellschaft. Eine Untersuchung der Theosophischen Lehrentwicklungen in der Zeit zwischen den Hauptwerken Alfred Percy Sinnetts. Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter. (2022), in: ThLZ 2022.
Otto, Bernd-Christian, âHans Thomas Hakl: Three Lives in Oneâ, in: Religiographies 2/1 (2023): https://www.cini.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Otto_2023_Three-Lives_1-2.pdf
Otto, Bernd-Christian. âConjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary âMagic(k)ââ, in: Entangled Religions 14/3 (2023), DOI: https://doi.org/10.46586/er.14.2023.10299
Otto, Bernd-Christian. âIntroduction: Western learned magic as an entangled religionâ, in: Entangled Religions 14/3 (2023), DOI: https://doi.org/10.46586/er.14.2023.10457
Otto, Bernd-Christian. Review: âShai Feraro and Ethan Doyle White (eds.), Magic and Witchery in the Modern West: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of âTriumph of the Moonâ, London: Palgrave Macmillan 2019â, in: International Journal for the Study of New Religions 11/2 (2022).
Bastos, C. (2024). Yoga, emotion, and behaviour: becoming conscious of habitual social roles. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 1â19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2024.2347048
Hirmer, Monika (2024). “Editorial: Introducing a New, Radically Inclusive, Decolonial Knowledge Landscape,” in Decolonial Subversions 2023-2024, Special Issue Vernacular Cultures of South Asia, 1-12. http://decolonialsubversions.org/docs/pdfs/2024/1.1_Hirmer_Editorial.pdf
Ladeira, ThaĂs Assis and Cecilia dos GuimarĂŁes Bastos (2024). “Life of Yoga and Neo-Hinduism: Identities and Belongings,” in Sociologia & Antropologia 14 (01). https://doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752024v14111
Lennert Gesterkamp (2024). âWang Ximeng Qianli jiangshan tu zhongde xiuxing gushi çćžćăćéæ±ć±±ćŸăäžçäżźèĄæ äș,â (Wang Ximeng’s A Thousand Miles of Streams and Mountains and its Story of Daoist Self-Cultivation), in Meishu daguanăçŸæŻć€§è§ă3(2024), 29-40.
Book reviews
“Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (2024). “Briggs, Charles L. (2021) Unlearning. Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge, Utah State University Press (Denver, CO), ix + 346 pp. $36.95 pbk,” in Bulletin of Latin American Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13545
Rivera AndĂa, Juan Javier (2024). “Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. 232 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. ÂŁ22.99 (paper),” in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 30(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14138
Blog Posts
Aschenbrenner, Lina (2023). “We Should All Learn kĆkua and kÄkoâo,” in Counterpoint Navigating Knowledge (blog), September 26, 2023. https://www.counterpointknowledge.org/we-should-all-learn-kokua-and-kakoo/
Hirmer, Monika (2023). “Tantra Goes West: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Encounters, CentreâMargin Dynamics and an Insidious Paradox,” in Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP) (blog).
Exhibition
Stoller, Paul. Surrounded by the Spirits: Paul Stoller and the Songhay Journey towards Wellbeing. Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, West Chester University.nSeptember 29, 2023 â December 1, 2024
Lectures
Hirmer, Monika. 2024.04.28. ‘Embracing the World through Tantra: Perspectives from South Asia‘, hosted by Temples of Eros, London, United Kingdom.
Paul Stoller facilitated a Master Class in Ethnographic Writing at the Atlantic Anthropological Workshop, April 18-21 in Dingle, Ireland.
Stoller, Paul. June 04 University of Bayreuth “Wisdom from the Edge.
Stoller, Paul. June 06 Czech Academy of Sciences, The Gellner Lecture, “Doing Public Anthropology in Turbulent Times,”
Stoller, Paul. June 20. “the Wisdom of Others,” ZM0, Berlin.