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View article: The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited
The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited Open
This paper presents evidence that some—but not all—religious experts in a particular faith may have a schizophrenia-like psychotic process which is managed or mitigated by their religious practice, in that they are able to function effecti…
View article: Virtual Reality as a Proxy for Participant Observation in Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Virtual Reality as a Proxy for Participant Observation in Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology Open
This article details the piloting of a virtual reality activity in an introductory anthropology class at Utah Valley University. Anthropologists have only recently started exploring how VR technology can facilitate classroom learning. As E…
View article: Reply to Terhune and Jamieson: The nature of absorption
Reply to Terhune and Jamieson: The nature of absorption Open
We are deeply grateful for Terhune and Jamieson’s interest in our work (1, 2). We take seriously their concern that the observed relationships between absorption and spiritual presence events could be inflated by two items referring to sen…
View article: Quantifying the Outfield Shift Using K-Means Clustering
Quantifying the Outfield Shift Using K-Means Clustering Open
Sports teams constantly search for a competitive advantage (e.g. bidding for free agents or scouting nontraditional markets). As popularized by Moneyball, we focus on advanced analytics in baseball. These sabermetrics are employed to provi…
View article: Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths
Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths Open
Significance The sensory presence of gods and spirits is central to many of the religions that have shaped human history—in fact, many people of faith report having experienced such events. But these experiences are poorly understood by so…
View article: Intelligible Tolerance, Ambiguous Tensions, Antagonistic Revelations: Patterns of Muslim-Christian Coexistence in Orthodox Christian Majority Ethiopia
Intelligible Tolerance, Ambiguous Tensions, Antagonistic Revelations: Patterns of Muslim-Christian Coexistence in Orthodox Christian Majority Ethiopia Open
This dissertation examines movements between harmonic and antagonistic modalities of Muslim-Christian relations in a context of increasing religious plurality. In Gondar, Ethiopia, an educational and symbolic center of Ethiopian Orthodox C…