Salon carries a substantive critique of the so-called “New Atheism” (the polemical atheism associated with figures like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris) by Scholar Reza Aslan. Aslan suggests that these figures are best understood as anti-theists, not merely atheists, in their… Continue Reading
CLAVIS 3: Cipher and Stone Seattle scholar and CLAVIS contributor Andrew Larson will give a talk ‘Oneiric Potency in the Greek Magical Papyri’. In addition to fresh copies of CLAVIS 3 there will be select titles available from Ouroboros Press,… Continue Reading
Continuing with reports from the American Academy of Religion. This morning, I was able to make it to the first Western Esotericism section. There was a section on “Western Esotericism in the African-American Religious Experience” yesterday that I would have… Continue Reading
Continuing with my reports on the research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. One note to Zero Equals Two readers: The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion gathers more then 9000 scholars… Continue Reading
You’re in school studying anthropology and sometimes dream about working at the Smithsonian. Well here’s your chance. APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 1, 2015 Applicants must submit a short statement of interest and an initial proposal for an individual research project (see… Continue Reading
Continuing reports from the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. The afternoon opened with a panel on the New Animism hosted between the Pagan Studies and the Ritual Studies research groups. Briefly (and somewhat simply) the “new Animism”… Continue Reading
Interesting development in genetics, certain Native American populations are closer related to Northern Europeans. The snippet article – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130151606.htm The full paper: http://www.genetics.org/content/192/3/1065.full.pdf+html
As I mentioned before, I will be blogging from the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. While I am aiming to report specifically on the Esoteric Studies group while here, I’ll be updating Zero Equals Two readers with reports… Continue Reading
Thelemic scholar Henrik Bogdan has uploaded the uncorrected proof of “Kenneth Grant & The Ty7phonian Tradition, ” his chapter from the upcoming collection “The Occult World,” being edited ty Christopher Partridge, being published by Routledge (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415695961/)in 2015. The publisher says:… Continue Reading
A large team of researchers with members from Europe, the U.S. and China has found evidence that suggests modern humans are more genetically diverse than were Neanderthals. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the… Continue Reading