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The Mind in Hand: Introducing the Knowing Hands ProjectBlog for CAS-E June 2025
Marta Hanson The opportunity to speak on May 27th (2025) in the CAS-E summer semester lecture series, turned out to…
Almost a Religion: Spirits, Ancestors, and Powerful Persons in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
Sergio González Varela Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian ritual that combines elements of martial arts, music, and playfulness. Introduced by slaves…
CAS-E panel at the Convention of the Association for Parapsychology
Anna Ozhiganova, Birgit Menzel and Bernd-Christian Otto visited the Convention of the Association for Parapsychology in Freiburg on July 15-18,…
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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...
