Jones takes his readers on an ethnohistorical journey that traverses instrumental magic (which is mostly occult and “primitive”), stage magic…
Thinking with/through analogies
theory
Open Sky (after Paul Virilio)
After Trump was elected president it felt like the sky had turned to iron with nothing but smudgy glass portals…
In defense of the fragment
Richard Madsen has done me the favor of reading my book carefully and sympathetically. He points out that the complexity…
Theorizing religion in modern Europe
On March 7-8, 2014, Harvard University will be hosting an international conference entitled "Theorizing Religion in Modern Europe."
The integrity of theory
I am delighted that my new book on political theology has provided the occasion for this conversation. The editors have…
Why I don’t read non-fiction from Barnes and Noble, and why that’s a problem for public scholarship; or, what I learned in third grade about epistemology and essentialization
I have not been interested in the Barnes and Noble non-fiction section for a long time. There might be a…
Comparing the incommensurate
David Buckley's recent post in Notes from the field raises a crucial methodological question. On what basis is comparative work…
I hope you like circles
Perceptions of the environment, however intensively managed that environment may in fact be, turn into experiences of nature, self, and…