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Comment by Piers Locke on September 24, 2009 at 10:16pm

Wilber's a product of the California Institute of Integral Studies, founded in the late 60s by disciples of Sri Aurobindo. I think Integral Studies has been a rubric that's been used to sell itself to the self-help markets, promising wisdom for people who wish to succeed in business or realise their true potentials. That's not to say he isn't an interesting thinker like other mavericks operating outside the academy like Terence McKenna or Robert Anton Wilson (McKenna's Food of the Gods is an incredible book which got me engaged with ethnobotany before I even knew what it was, and I still regularly use excerpts of Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology in my anthropology teaching). I have a vague recollection that he may have incorporated some of Maturana and Varela's ideas about autopoeisis, also known as second order cybernetics. He might be an interesting subject for an anthropological study of the market in religious thinkers selling to secular publics who discover they still have 'religious' needs.

Comment by Priscilla Karin Rodgers on September 24, 2009 at 8:53pm

Has anyone heard of Ken Wilber? I think he is very important to the study on religion and anthropology...what are your thouights on him?

Comment by Priscilla Karin Rodgers on September 21, 2009 at 2:47am

JOSEPH CAMPBELLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Piers Locke on September 19, 2009 at 12:31pm

Hi- I'm a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales, Lampeter, where I am about to teach a course called Ritual and Belief in South Asia. In my research I am interested in the role of ritual and belief in captive elephant management in Nepal, particularly elephant training as a rite of passage for handler and elephant alike.

Comment by Sandro Shanidze on July 31, 2009 at 11:41am

Someone is studiing Quakers in Georgia?O_o why haven't I heard of it?

Comment by Jonathan H. Harwell on July 9, 2009 at 5:34pm

Hi, librarian here who's a grad student in anthropology, studying Quakers in Georgia.

Comment by Paul Wren on June 13, 2009 at 7:29pm

I just received a mailing from the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC announcing a call for proposals. It seems they have $3.5 million in social science research grant money they want to distribute as part of the

Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative

Here's a snippet from the letter:

"PCRI... is intended to provide a scholarly framework to investigate Penteconstalism and the various renewal movements that have emerged in Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and mainline Potestantism.

PCRI will provide up to $3.5 million in grant funding to support social science research on Penteconstal and charismatic Christianity in Aria, Africa, Latin America (including the Caribbean) and the former Soviet Union."

They will award 7 grants to regional centers and 15 grants to individuals.

Thought this looked interesting! The deadline for FRPs is August 1, 2009.

Comment by Donizete Rodrigues on June 11, 2009 at 1:24pm

Hi, I'm the new member. I'm going from Portugal to Columbia University, Dep. of Religion, as associate member. My research project is on Brazilian Immigration and Pentecostalism in New York City. I would like to contact anthropologist with the same focus and others issues on religion.

Comment by John McCreery on June 4, 2009 at 9:40am

In time now so long ago that it seems like another galaxy, I was a student of Victor Turner and wrote a dissertation titled "The Symbolism of Popular Taoist Magic." That research led to an article in the Journal of Chinese Religions, "Why don't we see some real money here? Offerings in Chinese religion," then my one contribution to American Ethnologist (February 1995) "Negotiating with demons: The uses of magical language." More recently there is a chapter on traditional Chinese religions in Ray Scupin, ed., Religion and Culture, An Anthropological Focus. My current research focus, however, is Japanese advertising. A former e-mail signature sums up the career: In Taiwan I studied magicians, in Japan I joined the guild. Anyway, I've joined up to learn what interests people these days.

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