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Conference Report: CAS-E’s Inaugural Conference (December 8-10, 2022)

  • 7. March 2023
  • CAS-E held its inaugural conference from December 8 – 10, 2022. The conference opened on December 8 with a keynote address by Jeffrey J. Kripal on the “Archives of the Impossible”,...
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A famous Daoist master of self-cultivation techniques in the Republican period and chair of the Daoist Association, Chen Yingning 陳攖寧 (1880-1969).

Creating Daoism: The Fangdao yulu and Daoist Esoteric Practices in the Republican Period

  • 3. March 2023
  • Mr. Schipper was a researcher of Daoist learning and received a Daoist ordination, becoming a fully foreign Daoist priest. On May 12, 1970, a guest arrived. It was the famous Mr....
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Apparently a group men sitting on the floor, some of them clapping, some playing drums; except form two they are dressed in long white dresses, some wearing a kufi (head wrap)

Transgressing Boundaries: Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices

  • 24. February 2023
  • My doctoral dissertation, which I defended at the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg, is on the topic of “Zar Ritual and Expression of Gender Identity in Hormozgan Province,...
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Parsi priest while enjoying a break during the performance of a nīrangdīn ceremony, making sure to maintain the necessary distance from any person. The state of purity is a common requirement for the performance of major Zoroastrian rituals. Besides the performance of specific rituals, it implies the maintenance of distance from people who are not in the same state, such as laypeople or non-Zoroastrians.

The Gift of the Last Magi

  • 17. February 2023
  • I recently gave the lecture ‘The Gift of the Last Magi’ as part of the CAS-E lecture series. I shared an overview of my research project on the nīrangdīn ceremony as...
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Sunset Reflections on Identity and the Life-Course: Lessons from West Africa

  • 10. February 2023
  • Early in 2022 I experienced a magnificent Bull River sunset near Savannah, Georgia. The Bull River flows through an intricate maze of breathtaking wetlands that snake their way toward the Georgia...
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Interface of RENSEP website on computer and on mobile phone

The Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices

  • 3. February 2023
  • I recently had the pleasure of giving a guest talk entitled “The Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices (RENSEP),” at the newly founded Center for Advanced Studies ‘Alternative Rationalities...
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The Buddhist Eschatological Crisis in Fifth-Century China and Its Consequences: Sacred History, Collective Destiny, and Their Manipulation

  • 27. January 2023
  • This lecture was a welcome opportunity for me to give an overview of my project at the IKGF this year, and a preliminary presentation of some main findings and research directions....
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Wooden floor covered with cloth, blankets, thin mattresses; in the right part of the picture, two people of female appearance lying beneath each other on the floor lower body covered with blanket; a shaman crouches at the head of the one person and seems to talk to the person; the shaman places a plant on the person's stomach; on the left side of the picture another person holds a house made of plants for the spirit; a wooden doll lies on the floor; in the background many people watching; colorful cloth

On Knowing and Not-Knowing Spirits in Indonesian Borneo

  • 25. January 2023
  • “You never know when it comes to spirits,” the renowned Luangan shaman (belian) Kakah Ramat once told me. “You don’t know whether it is Bongai, Bansi or Tentuwaja who is guilty...
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Three people are standing between plants in front of a table, on which there is also a small plant in a top and on which visibly different plant parts and herbs are processed - one sees different species lying around, partly already crushed. Two of the people are standing in the background, one is holding a bowl in his hands. The person in the foreground, apparently responsible for processing the plants and herbs, is smelling a bunch of plants or herbs. In his right hand he holds the tool, perhaps a mortar, which he needs for processing.

Relational Ontologies of Illness, and the Nigerian Sahel

  • 2. December 2022
  • I recently gave a talk titled “Relational Ontologies of Illness, and the Nigerian Sahel.” I explored conversations of religious healers with spirits about how, when, and where shifting ecologies of the Sahel...
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