Embracing the Magicality of Science By Kocku von Stuckrad A few weeks ago, Renny Thomas argued on this blog that “rituals and prayers are very much part of the public imagination of science in India.” Many readers from Europe and Read more
The Iris Book Award: Prize Ceremony, Reading, and Discussion On 26 September 2020, The Center for Religion & the Human at Indiana University Bloomington presented the Iris Book Award to The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors (Viking, Read more
Storytelling for Social and Planetary Change – A Pachaysana / Counterpoint Webinar This series of workshops was co-sponsored by The Pachaysana Institute, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University, the Religious Studies Department at Florida Read more
Religious Rituals and Scientific Laboratories: The Case of India By Renny Thomas Science and Religion are often perceived as mutually exclusive, but historical and anthropological scholarship shows that there exist different forms of receptions. What is sometimes called the ‘conflict Read more
Counterpoint Turns Two—Looking Back and Looking Forward By Whitney A. Bauman & Kocku von Stuckrad Exactly two years ago, on 25 August 2018, we launched Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge with an event in Berlin that addressed “Contrapuntal Responses to Culture Wars, Read more
Re-storying Metaphors as Decolonization By Daniel Bryan In their seminal article, “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang speak to many of us who read this blog, calling for activist scholars, educators, and organizers to reconsider Read more
Mucho, Mucho, Mucho Amor, For the Planet By Whitney A. Bauman I have been thinking about planetary erotics lately. By that I mean the love of bodies, internal and external to us. As David Abrams suggests, biology and the biosphere Read more
This is Not a World of One: Our Separability-Amid-Situatedness By Marcia Pally What’s the disconnect? I’m sitting in Washington Square Park in N.Y., which I treat as my “backyard” as its curving paths and grand old trees are a block Read more
Green Spiritual Technologies: Putting the Anthropocene Era to Rest (One Day a Week) By Jonathan Schorsch The shutdown forced on much of the world by the Coronavirus pandemic has focused attention even more urgently on questions related to work: economic Read more
Immediacy and the End of Modernity’s Ends By Whitney A. Bauman Several recent blog posts have touched on the meanings of end times and apocalypses. One in particular hoped for an apocalypse, in the sense of a new world being Read more