Abstract: Contemporary debates on posthumanism and the planetary environmental crisis have led to the questioning of the dichotomies and anthropocentrism of Western modernity. The Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco of Argentina, specifically the Qom or Toba, neither privileged the human above other beings that make up the world nor created nature/culture dichotomies. In other words they were,...
American Religion 5:1 138Around the time when Jacob Boss approached us with the invitation to contribute to this American Religion roundtable on AI and algorithms, I (Sharday Mosurinjohn) had just been introduced to the esoteric algorithm called "Human Design" 1 by a friend in the psychedelic space, which is where the bulk of my research now takes place. 2 As I delved deeper into the world of...
Tibetan Singing Bowls exemplify key features of American religion: creativity, commodification, and conflict. Histories published in popular and scholarly outlets portray these objects as ancient Buddhist artifacts, beloved both because they originated in a place imagined as quintessentially spiritual and because their benefits have been confirmed by modern science. Yet, few if any such objects...