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Transformative practices of Western Sufis
Oleg Yarosh My individual research is associated with the CAS-E project Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective…
Exploring knowledge as transformation of the self in Sufi circles
Lili Di Puppo During my July talk at CAS-E, I presented initial reflections on what I call “the vertical dimension…
Sufism: The Heart of Islam
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA: Film title: Sufism: The Heart of Islam, Director: Robert Mull?an, Year Made: 1990, Country of production: United Kingdom,…
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- 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...
- “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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- By Lennert Gesterkamp 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...
- 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”,...
- by Paul Stoller The Dogon people of Mali say that the Sigui, an important ritual, takes off on the “wings of the wind.” The ritual is performed once of year for...
