Osto, Douglas. Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISNB 10: 0231177305 Hardcover, e-book. 328 pages. In recent years, the amount of published scholarly work on psychedelics, religion, and spirituality has grown enormously.…
Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 2 (Padraic Fitzgerald)
The following is the second installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here. Chod, the Rite of Severance Chod, translated from Tibetan as meaning “severance”, is a ritual that…
Spiritual Erotics, Part 2 – The Nature and History of Machismo and Its Feminine Counterpart As “Marianismo”
From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published. This second installment of the article, released in three parts, reflects a recent talk in California by Prof.…