Steven Engler

Prof. study of religion: spirit incorporation traditions in Brazil, theorizing, methodology. Blogging at

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Blog post on Religioning: “Marrying the Dead
From ghost marriage to AI romance” https://t.co/iH00VXgjWt

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From my editorial (w. @MiStausberg) on SoR journals & worth underlining again: “As a matter of self-interest and ethics, all scholars in SoR should cite each other’s work more...” https://t.co/zboLcDDbOR

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New blog posts on Religioning: "What Is Magic? (Un)natural causes and occult effects" https://t.co/7gMbDNSFcA — "Three Secrets of Secret Societies: Public faces of hidden things" https://t.co/FpZbB7vTwk

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@Support I started a new account @sje1837557 just to follow a subset of x accounts. After a couple of days, it was suspended, after 0 posts, 0 likes, 0 re-posts. I am logged in & cannot appeal: your system says I am not logged in. Logging out and in does not help. ???

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New blog post (from a series on relative transcendence in SF) – Entering the Zone (1/3), by @StevenJEngler1 https://t.co/THIlOCUE6H

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@McCutcheonSays Several of those cites are mine. It is a key and still highly relevant intervention in the history of the discipline's self-reflection.

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Petition against potential decision to cut the Study of Religion at UNCG https://t.co/dacrdarncS via @Change

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Call for papers – International Journal of Latin American Religions (Springer) – Religion and Migration in Latin America and among Latin American people in other parts of the world https://t.co/P4NACUciaO

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Free on-line M.A. courses (semester fee of NOK 590) as part of a program in Religious Minorities at U Bergen @UiB – courses on #YazidiCulture, #Sami history, anti-semitism, LDS, Buddhism in India etc. https://t.co/r0CDTeXf0s

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The @ScienceEurope Action Plan for Diamond #OpenAccess [=no cost to authors or readers] notes that 17 000-29 000 of these journals, publish 8-9% of all articles worldwide, 45% of all oa pubs globally — let's lobby our institutions to support https://t.co/pVqtteX4E4

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#openaccess in PLURA “No meu cardápio, reescrever o destino [On the menu, rewriting fate]” (in Portuguese) by João Paulo de Paula Silveira — food, religion and environmentalism in Brazilian Seicho-no-Ie https://t.co/xFHgr8KxcT

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#openaccess in Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões "Tatuagem e religião [Tattoos & Religion]" (in Port.) by Juvan Vieira da Silvarans — historical overview, focus on Coptic Christians https://t.co/DEUNXprGRn — Translate here: https://t.co/RFmjN9HY2N

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“This will ensure you are submitting your work to the legitimate journal, that all elements of the publishing process are handled by your intended journal, and that you are providing all authorship and content warranties.” (4/4)

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Following up on my earlier email re #predatorypublishing (@Routledge_Phil writes): “We have become aware that a small number of authors intending to submit to the journal have been approached by ‘agents’ selling predatory ‘manuscript services’. … (1/4)

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“… the agents provided fake submission details, proofs, acceptance letters and emails. To avoid this, please ensure you submit any paper via the journal’s Taylor & Francis Submission Portal and not through an unfamiliar agent or email address. … (3/4)

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#openaccess in JRAT — "Supreme Mathematics: The Five Percenter Model of Divine Self-Realization and Its Commonalities to Interpretations of the Pythagorean Tetractys in Western Esotericism" by Martin Abdel Matin Gansinger — https://t.co/vGmEaQPzOA

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#openaccess in Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (2022) "Religious Studies as the 'State Religion' of Neoliberalism," by @carlraschke — https://t.co/hSOyBkrtwD — "naming what is 'religious' and what is not ... [has been] the hidden handmaiden of European imperial policy"

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#openaccess in Journal of Religion & Society: "Heresy and Its Uses" by Taylor Cade West — a look at neglected figure Herbert W. Armstrong (Worldwide Church of God – Adventist, British-Israelist) as a 20th-cent. "heresiarch" from the p.o.v. of evangelicals https://t.co/YwiNW2q0bv

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@Routledge_Phil is offering a 20% discount until May 2 on the second edition (2022) of the The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, co-edited with @MiStausberg https://t.co/MCwX8CnGlw