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religious studies

Thinking about the impossible

John Fea   |  March 6, 2025

Writer Jay Michaelson asks if Rice University religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal has gone mad, or normal?” Kripal’s recent book is How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else. Here is a taste of Michaelson’s review […]

The Penguin Book of Exorcisms

John Fea   |  March 22, 2022

Yes, such a book exists. It is edited by Texas State religious studies scholar Joseph P. Laycock and it is the subject of James Butler’s 3249 word review at London Review of Books. Here is a taste of Butler’s review: […]