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[Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-3-john-cuda/) ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/edward-howell-vltjdp8zy1c-unsplash.webp) ### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-2-john-cuda/) October 12, 2021 — By John Cuda The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Symbolically, the idea of going beyond the edge of the ordinary world to [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-2-john-cuda/) ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/haley-lawrence-ewyga88k0yg-unsplash-1.webp) ### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths/) October 4, 2021 — By John Cuda The following is the first of a three-part series. In this article I seek to analyze spiritual phenomena using contemporary mythological and pop-cultural [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths/) ![New Religions in Brazil – A Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism (Silas Guerriero)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/iskcon_temple_bhubaneswar_lord_jagannath_balabhadra_subhadra.webp) ### [New Religions in Brazil – A Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism (Silas Guerriero)](/religioustheory/posts/new-religions-in-brazil-a-game-between-relativism-and-fundamentalism-silas-guerriero/) March 10, 2018 — By Silas Guerriero Speaking of new religious movements in Brazil implies, above all, in defining what we refer to when we speak of “new religions.” We have already had an [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/new-religions-in-brazil-a-game-between-relativism-and-fundamentalism-silas-guerriero/) ![Slow Journalism? Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 2 (James V. Spickard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/denali-national-park-1733313_1280-uncharted-territory.webp) ### [Slow Journalism? Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 2 (James V. Spickard)](/religioustheory/posts/slow-journalism-ethnography-as-a-means-of-understanding-religious-social-activism-part-2-james-v-spickard/) October 23, 2017 — By James V. Spickard The following is a talk presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and is the second installment of a two-part series [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/slow-journalism-ethnography-as-a-means-of-understanding-religious-social-activism-part-2-james-v-spickard/) ![Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/internet-handshake.webp) ### [Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)](/religioustheory/posts/review-digital-technologies-and-religion-in-the-postmodern-era/) July 14, 2016 — By Albert McClure *Han, Sam. Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity. Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society 19 142 pages. 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