" Cold War paranoia can only partly describe or explain the 20th century dreams of
telepathy. The nightmare shades of mind control and crowd frenzy have long alternated with …

Based on almost three years of ethnographic research living in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, I
consider how the senses comes to matter and how Pentecostalism, margins, smells, and …

Historians have noted that many 19th-century founders and members of psychic societies
were clergy, or had fathers who were clergy, seeking evidence for the survivalist hypothesis …

Secular distant pasts, religious far futures? I would like to start off this chapter with two
chronologically disparate scenes. The two moments I have selected, though, should not be …

Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States
from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences …

I have been working in the field of radio art, and through creative practice have been
considering how the convergence of new media technologies has redefined radio art …

Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, this dissertation weaves portraits of
urban esoteric practitioners together with contemporary social theories of labor in order to …

In addition to its metaphorical and practical influences, the internet has informed New Agers'
cosmologies and corresponding bodily practices by requiring a rethinking of the physical …

Biblical texts have been used consistently in sermons throughout Christian history.
Preachers have transformed the texts into an aural experience, using them to evangelize …

An examination of oracles in popular forms of Cuban espiritismo invites a rethinking of the
role of “randomness” and “context” in the anthropology of divination. Through an analysis of …