If there’s one thing scholars of religion can agree on, it’s this: There is no consensus about what constitutes the…
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Bruno Latour
Talking to spirits and other anthropotechnical things
October 12, 2025
John Tresch: I’ve got a lot from your ethnographic work—I’m always recommending Of Two Minds!—but was pleasantly surprised to stumble…
Irreverently reverent
October 12, 2025
Sarah Hammerschlag: I read two of your essays, “An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt” and “Occult Epidemics,”…
Science and religion across Senegal and Japan
October 12, 2025
Robyn d’Avignon: Levi, the prompt for our conversation suggests that dialogue between science and technology studies (STS) and religious studies has…
Making heads and making gods in the factory of religion
October 12, 2025
These conversations were stimulating and inspiring. What follows is a deliberately undisciplined series of thoughts (see Henry Cowles and Caleb…
Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion
August 23, 2023
One of the interesting things about religious nationalisms is their interchangeablity. I remember reading Peter van der Veer’s book, Religious…












