Ritual Studies
Antonio J. Morales
Old Kingdom (Egyptology), Egyptology, Myth And Ritual Studies, Liturgics, Egyptian Ritual Texts, and 27 moreRitual Theory, History of Egyptology, Egyptian Religion (Egyptology), Kingship (Egyptology), Texts and transmission, Myth (Archaeology), Middle Kingdom, Mortuary literature, Egyptian language, Ritual (Anthropology), Ritual and Performance (Egyptology), Funerary Belief (Egyptology), Textual Criticism, Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead, Book of the Dead, Ancient Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Ritual Studies, Ritual, Ritual Syntax, Egyptian Kingship, Religious Violence, Pyramid Texts, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts, Ancient Egyptian History, and Books and Libraries in the Ancient Worldedit
Alice Mouton
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Department Member
UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée Department
Assyriology, Hittite, Hittitology, History of Religions, and 61 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Anatolian Studies, Luwian, Rites of Passage, Liminality, Funeral Practices, Ritual Theory, Ritual (Anthropology), Animal Sacrifice (Anthropology), Sacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion), Anthropology of Death, Magic and Divination in the Ancient World, Ancient Near East, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Archaeology of Religion, Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Ancient Anatolia, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Near Eastern Archaeology, Ritual, Ancient Near Eastern Religions, Archaeology of Ritual, Magic, Anthroponyms, Onomastic, Anthropology of Personal Names, Gift Exchange, Hospitality, Social Identity, Divination, Knowledge, Individuality, Food Consumption (Anthropology), Witchcraft (Magic), The Body, Worship, Kingship and systems of rule, Family (Sociology), Adoption, Archaeology of cult, Divinity, Cosmology (Anthropology), Food (Anthropology), Demonology, History of Religion, Ancient Religion, Cuneiform, Sleep and Dreaming, Ritual Studies, Initiation Practices (Anthropology), Information Retrieval, Hittite magic, Hittite Witches, Dromography (Historic Routes Research), Trade Routes, Body, Embodiment, Sensory, Cognitive Science, Hittite Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Historical Geography, and Anatolian Archaeologyedit
Helen Efthimiadis-Keith
Bible. Old Testament. Hebrew. OT apocrypha. Feminism. Academic Development, Jingian Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Biblical Texts/, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Book of Judith, and 65 moreBook of Tobit, Tobit, Autobiographical Biblical Criticism, Apocrypha, Feminist Biblical Interpretation, Anat-Astarte, Castration Anxiety, Demeter Myth, Artistic Renditions of Judith, Jungian Biblical Interpretation, Jungian Psychoanalytic Biblical Interpretation, Gender, Dreams, Archetypes, Interpretation, Feminist, Old testament Apocrypha, Academic Development and Support, Traversing Gender Boundaris, Patriarchal Stereotypes, Judith As National Dream, Book and Character of Judith, Jungian Psychoanalytic Dream Analysis, Judith, Gender and Murder, Jewish and Christian Apocryphal Texts, Date of Judith, Transgressing Gender Sereotypes, Jungian Interpretation of Genesis, Interpretations of Judith, Leadership, Religion, Social Sciences, Books of the Twelve Prophets, Amos, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Theology, Biblical Studies, Biblical Genealogy, Ritual, Ideology and Ritual, Myth And Ritual Studies, Liturgics, Ritual Feasting, Ritual Practices, Ritual Theory, Ritual Studies, Ritual Dynamics, Burial (Ritual), Ritual Healing, Ritual (Religion), Bible and Popular Culture, Pre-Exilic Ancient Israel - Hebrew Bible and Archaeology; Phoenician-Punic language and epigraphy; Levantine Archaeology (espeically Biblical Archaeology), Jungian psychology, Jung, Jungian psychology (Religion), Jungian and post-Jungian psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, Jungian psychotherapy, Psychology of Unconscious, Jungian, Carl Jung, Shadow Work, Emotional trauma, Jungian analysis and psychotherapy, and Depth Psychologyedit
Yitzhaq Feder
Embodiment Theory, Contagion and Pollution, Embodied Cognition, Cognitive Semiotics, and 32 moreHistory Of Disease, Ritual Studies, Qumran, Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), Cognitive Science of Religion, Cognitive Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor, Hittite Rituals, Hebrew Bible, Ancient Religion, Anthropology of the Body, Phenomenology of the body, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Israelite Religion, Impurity, Levantine (Hittite, West Semitic, Israelite) Ritual Traditions, Hittite, Mesopotamian Religions, Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts, Alva Noe, Enactivism, Embodied Mind and Cognition, Phenomenology, Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy of Mind, Embodied and Enactive Cognition, Cultural Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ruth Millikan, Meaning, and Biosemanticsedit
Rennan de Souza Lemos
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology, Division of Archaeology
Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, Amarna Studies, Funerary Archaeology, and 119 moreRitual landscapes, Archaeology of Religion, Afterlife landscapes, Archaeology, Archaeology of Ritual, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Digital Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Spatial analysis (Archaeology), Spatial archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Book of the Dead, Egyptian Ritual Texts, Anthropology, Theoretical Archaeology, Ancient History, Archaeological Science, Experimental Archaeology, Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Marx, Marxism, Bourdieu, Ritual Studies, Ancient Egyptian Religion and Ritual, Epistemology, Social Anthropology, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, 18th Dynasty, Ancient Nubia, Sudan, Personal Religion in the Amarna Period, Rituals in Ancient Egypt, Amarna Period - Ancient Egypt, Archaeological Method & Theory, Near Eastern Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian History, Remote Sensing, Ancient Egypt, Nubian-Egyptian Relations, New Kingdom (Egyptology), Archaeological Theory, Cemetery Studies, Social Stratification, Material Culture Studies, Burial Customs, Ritual and Performance (Egyptology), Egyptian Sarcophagi, Nubian studies, Nubia, Antropología, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Image Processing, 3D GIS, Geographic Information Systems GIS), Geography, Earth Sciences, Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape Research, History of Archaeology, Social Inequality, Social Inequality (Anthropology), Ancient economy, Ancient economies (Archaeology), Archaeology of death and burial, Death, Ritual, Death and Burial (Archaeology), Social Theory (Classical & Contemporary), Critical Social Theory, Contemporary Social Theory, Social Theory, Urban and Cultural Studies, and the Interactions Between Urban Space, Politics, Memory, and Subjectivity, Structuralism (Social Theory), Social Theory, Social History (Ancient Egypt), Burial Practices (Archaeology), Heritage, Heritage Studies, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Management, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Museum Studies, Public Archaeology, Museum and Heritage Studies, Museology, Archaeometry, Community Engagement & Participation, Sudanese Archaeology, Nubian Archaeology, Jan Assmann, Sacred Landscape (Archaeology), Boundaries (Archaeology), Ritual theory and practice (Archaeology), Funerary Belief (Egyptology), New Kingdom (Archaeology), Archaeology of ethnicity, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Religious Texts (Egyptology), Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Votive practice, Historical Archaeology, Ancient Topography (Archaeology), Postcolonial Studies, Orientalism, Postcolonial Theory, Post-Colonialism, Hybridity, Hybridization, Mortuary archaeology, Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, Postcolonial Feminism, African Archaeology, African Diaspora Studies, Africa (Archaeology), African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, History of Slavery, and Black/African Diasporaedit
Johanna Hanink
Literary biography, Greek Literature, Greek Tragedy, Greek Comedy, and 11 moreAthenian Festivals, Carmina Epigraphica Graeca, Dante’s earliest reception, Greek Lyric Poetry, Greek Myth, Reception of Greek tragedy, Boccaccio, Civil Religion, Ritual Studies, Venice and the Veneto, and Venetian Historyedit
Ethan Doyle White
Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Archaeology of Religion, Anglo-Saxon archaeology, Pagan Studies, and 17 moreModern Paganisms, Folklore and archaeology, Western Esotericism (History), Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Queer Archaeology, Religion and ritual in prehistory, Ritual Studies, New Religious Movements, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Occultism, Paganism, Neo-Paganism and Western Esotericism, Wicca, Magical Practices, British witchcraft, contemporary Paganism, and Contemporary Witchcraftedit
Amanda Rogers
Gender, Visual Culture, Islamic Art, Media Studies, and 16 moreAfrican Art, Islamic Studies, Visual propaganda, Maghreb studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Ritual Studies, Arthur Danto, Talal Asad, Mahmood Mamdani, Politics, Conflict, Terrorism, and Egyptedit
Chipamong Chowdhury
Theravada Studies, Pali Buddhism, Anthropology of Buddhism, Ritual Studies, and 21 moreSouth Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Gender Studies, Buddhism and Politics, Contemporary Buddhism, Buddhist Transnationalism and Monastic Studies, History, Psychotherapy, Insight Meditation, Mindfulness Practice, Theravāda, Vipassanā, Applied Meditation, Global Buddhism, Critical Theory, Development Studies, Politics, Political Theory, Ethnography, International Studies, and Social Movementsedit
Liv Ingeborg Lied
Reception of the Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Pseudepigrapha studies, Ritual Studies, and 24 moreReligious Studies, Media culture, ancient and contemporary, Liturgical Studies, Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Theology, Second Temple Judaism, Malankara Orthodox Liturgy, Apocalypticism, ancient and contemporary, Reception History, Manuscript Studies, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, Scribal training, ancient literacy, Reception Studies, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Magic books, Medieval Culture, Liturgy, Codicology, Palaeography, Medieval Litteracy, Targum, Aramaic, Syriac, Judaism, and Christianityedit
Jon Solomon
Postcoloniality and decolonization, Chinese, Critique of Anthropological Difference and Subjective Formation, Paolo Virno, and 72 moreRay Brassier, Speculative Realism, François Laruelle, Non-Philosophy, Matteo Pasquinelli, Naoki Sakai, Michel Foucault, Anibal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, Decolonialidad, Joseph Massad, Hamid Dabashi, Post-Colonialism, Santiago Zabala, Mark Hansen, Language and Power, Race and Racism, Hybridization, Nationalism, Anthropological Difference, Rule of Colonial Difference, Biopolitics of Translation, Biopolitics, Translation Studies, Division of labor, Disciplinary history, Jean-Luc Nancy, Frederic Neyrat, Enrique Dussel's liberation philosophy, To Survive Academia Without Succumbing to the Eight Mundane Concerns, The Eight Mundane Concerns, Compassion, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Biopolitics, Hobbes, Biocapitalism, biocapitalism and Education, Bioinformatic Capitalism, Bioproduction, Bernard Aspe, Bruce Kapferer, Buddhist criticism, Speculative Non Buddhism, Meditation Practice and Theory; Nihilism; Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl; Buddhism, Ritual Studies, Pali Canon, Pali Language, Sanskrit language and literature, Theories of Sovereignty, Agamben, Negri, Securitization, Empire, Imperialism, Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Qualitative methodology, Critical Theory, Politics of knowledge production, Postolonial and Feminist Theory, Historical Sociology of Colonialism, Diversity and Difference, Social Movements, Surveillance Studies, Anthropocene, Queer Theory, Anthropology of the Body, Ecocriticism, International Migration of Female Labor, and Global Restructuringedit
Judit Torzsok
Shaiva Tantra, Sanskrit language and literature, Sanskrit Philology, Hinduism, and 17 moreTantric Studies, Purana, History of Religions, Tantra, Hindu Mythology, Ritual Studies, Philology, Tamil Literature, Shaivism, Tamil, Trika, Yogini Cult, Hindu Goddess Cult, Tantric Sanskrit, Hindu Devotional Literature, Historiography, and History of Religionedit
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock
Religion, Eastern European Studies, Atheism, Secularization, and 22 moreHistory of Atheism, Ritual Studies, Atheism/Secular Studies, Socialist Culture, History of Russia and Eurasia, Secularisms and Secularities, Postsecularism (Sociology), History, Social Sciences, Culture, Ritual, Soviet History, Burial Customs, Tradition, Rites of Passage, History of Science, Russian Studies, Russian History, Religious Studies, Politics of Secularism, Affect (Cultural Theory), and Central and Eastern Europeedit
Mark Christian
Pentateuchal Theory, Literary Approaches to Biblical Studies, Phoenician Punic Religion, Maritime Archaeology, and 53 moreIsraelite Religion, Ancient Seafaring, Book of Numbers, Prophecy, Archaeology of ethnicity, Achaemenid Persia, Biblical Law, Religion and Politics, Levantine Archaeology, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Phoenician sanctuary, Bronze and Iron Ages in Eastern Mediterranean (Archaeology), Ancient Religion, Samaritan Pentateuch, Archaeology of Mediterranean Trade, Coastal and Island Archaeology, Women of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Navigation, Phoenician Maritime Religion, Near Eastern Archaeology, Tobit, Torah/Pentateuch, Leviticus, Archaeology of Religion, Biblical Exegesis, Aegean Archaeology, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine (History and Archaeology), Ritual Studies, Reception History, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Theology, Biblical Studies, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, Ancient Near Eastern History, Household Religion, Household Religion In Antiquity, Ancient World Household Religion, Cultural contact between Greeks and Phoenicians, Intermarriages, Malta, Archeologie, Phoenician sanctuary, Persian Period, Fenicios, Maritime Routes, Phoenician Punic Sanctuary, Sanctuaries, Caves, Archaeology of Caves and Caverns (Archaeospeleology), Astarte, Network analysis in archaeology, Dynamics on Networks, Material culture of religion, and Decalogueedit
Robin Wright
Shamanism, Ethnohistory, Indigenous Religions, Amazonia, and 22 moreSacred Landscape and Cosmology, Religious Conversion, Ethnographic fieldwork, Metaphysics, New Religious Movements, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Studies, Comparative Religion, Comparative mythology, Jungian psychology, History of Religion, Consciousness and Creativity, Sustainable Development, Cosmology (Physics), Cosmology, History of Anthropology, Ethnic politics, Ethnomedicine, Ritual Studies, Indigenous rights, Cosmogony, and Escatologiaedit
Stephen Davis
Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Monasticism, Coptic (Archaeology), Early Christian Apocryphal Literature, and 49 moreInfancy Gospels, Coptic Monasteries, Coptic Studies, Coptic (Languages And Linguistics), Early Christianity, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Late Antique Archaeology, Patristics and Late Antiquity, Hagiography, Pilgrimage, Saint Thecla, Christology, Christian arabic studies, Bible in Arabic, Early Islam, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Shenoute of Atripe, Audience and Reception Studies, Reception Studies, Cultural Memory, Memory and materiality, History of Biblical Interpretation, Papyrology, Gnosticism, New Testament, History of Christianity, History of Childhood and Youth, Archaeology of Childhood, History of Childhood, Early Childhood Education, Ritual Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Islam, Medieval Islam, Quranic Studies, Greek Patristics, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Islamic Studies, The Hadith, Islamic Law, Islamic History, Arabic Literature, Biography of the Prophet Muhammad, Koran & Koran Exegesis, and Byzantine Studiesedit
Shilpa Sumant
Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute
Faculty Member
Sanskrit and Lexicography Department
Vedic Sanskrit, Life Rituals (i.e. birth, marriage, death etc.), Vedic Language and Classical Sanskrit, Ritual Studies, and 64 moreAtharvaveda, Sanskrit, Inscriptions, Epigraphy, Iconography, Sanskrit language and literature, Sanskrit Medical Literature, Indian studies, Ayurveda (Sanskrit language and literature), Ancient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics, Textual Criticism, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology, Tantric Studies, Buddhist Studies, Indian Art, Indian History, Ancient Indian Medicine, Ancient Indian Science, Indian Astronomy, Astrology, Indian Space Science, Shamanism, Folk, Rituals, Dance, Music, Arts, Healing Ceremonies, African Popular Culture, Malaysian Magic and Folklore, Beliefs & Values, Experience, Phenomenology, The Senses, Indology, VEDA, Mantra, Manuscripts, Orality, Oral Traditions, Brahmanism, Kashmir Shaivism, Shaiva Tantra, Yoga, Mimesis, Shastra, Dharmasutras, Ritual, The Bride With the Yoke, Archaeology, Religion, Buddhism, Philology, South Asian Studies, Manuscript Studies, Indian Philosophy, Hinduism, Oral history, and Philosophyedit
Shaman Hatley
Tantric Studies, Yoga, Shaivism, Indian Buddhism, and 27 moreBengal studies, Hinduism, Hatha Yoga, Kashmir Saivism, Tantra, Sanskrit, Sanskrit language and literature, Shaiva Tantra, Saiva Siddhanta, Śaiva Siddhānta and Early Āgamic Śaivism, Vajrayana, Classical Indology, Tantric Buddhism, Sanskrit Philology, Saivism, South Asian Religions, Indian Art, Art, Iconography and Religion (Hindu and Buddhist)., Hindu goddesses, Ritual Studies, Manuscript Studies, Ritual, Puranas, Material philology, Goddess Cultures In India, Hindu Shakta Tantra, and Indian Sufismedit
Tripp Hudgins
Ethnomusicology, Liturgy, Music Aesthetics, Theological Aesthetics, and 18 moreLiturgical Studies, Bluegrass Music, Medieval Theology, Banjo, Mandolin, History, Music of 19-20th century American Revivalism; Gospel Music; Hymnology, Theology, Virtual Communities, Colonial America, Baptism, History of Baptist and their Identity, Emergent Church, Re-traditioning, Music, Religion, Ritual Studies, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, and Social Networksedit
Kristin Joachimsen
Book of Isaiah, Ezra-Nehemiah, Persian Period, Constructions of Identity in Ancient Near Eastern Texts, and 55 moreReligion, Jonathan Z. Smith, Second Temple Judaism, Achaemenid History, Narratology, Symbolic boundaries and social boundaries, Borders and Frontiers, Border Crossing, Critical Theory, Cultural Memory, Theories Of The Other/Postcolonialism, Middle East Studies, Book of Esther, Second Temple Studies, Second Temple Period, Religious Conversion, Achaemenid Persia, Ritual Studies, Concept of Othering, Othering Process, Orientalism & Othering, Other, Ancient Historiography, Reception Studies, Social Identity, Ideology in the Bible, Inner-Biblical Exegesis, Religion and Identity (Anthropology), Ancient Ethnography, Daniel Boyarin, Exile Literature, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah, Mnemohistory, Jewish Law, Zerubavel Eviatar, Jewish Studies, Middle East Politics, Ethnicity and National Identity, Israel/Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, New Testament, Early Judaism, Paul, The Synoptic Gospels, Parting of the Ways, Ritual Purity, Conversion In Antiquity, Ethnicity In Antiquity, James Kugel, Talal Asad, Anthropology of Kinship, Cultural Studies, and Samaritan Studiesedit
Paul Gerstmayr
Oriental Studies, Religion, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 23 moreSanskrit language and literature, Aiśa Language, Tantric Studies, Saivism, Iranian Studies, Indo-European Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Buddhist Sanskrit, Religious Studies /Indology, Hindu Shakta Tantra, Goddess Cultures In India, Hinduism, Tantra, Ritual Studies, Shaivism, Ideology, Manuscript Studies, Oral Traditions, Codicology, Indology, Manuscripts, Ayurveda, and Indian studiesedit
Dalia Marx
Jewish Studies, Liturgy, Gender Studies, Midrash, and 60 moreJewish History, Jewish - Christian Relations, Gender, Cairo Genizah, Talmud Midrash Genizah Judaism Rabbinic-Literature Conversion Gender Haggadah, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Ritual, Ritual Theory, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Jewish Cultural Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Judaism, Early Judaism, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Ancient Judaism, Hellenistic Judaism, Modern Judaism, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish History, Jewish Law, Jewish Thought, Jewish Art History, Religious Studies, Ancient Religion, Religion, Philosophy Of Religion, History of Religion, Theory of Religion, Religious History, Ritual (Anthropology), Ritual Studies, Israel Studies, Israel and Zionism, Israel/Palestine, Talmud, Rhetorical Features In Talmudic Literature, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), Midrashic Literature, Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), Modern Hebrew Language, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Liturgy and Identity, Semitic languages, Hebrew Language, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew, Hebrew Manuscripts, Piyyut, Liturgical Studies, Liturgical History, Liturgical Theology, Myth And Ritual Studies, Liturgics, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Jewish historiography, Modern Jewish Thought, Jewish American Literature, and Jewish Literatureedit
Milan Vukomanović
Sociology of Religion, Religious Studies, Religion and Politics, Islam, and 15 moreEarly Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Gnosticism, Sufism, Inter-religious Dialogue, Gospel of Thomas, Historical Jesus, Second Temple Judaism, Ritual Studies, History of Religions, Serbian Orthodox Church, New Testament and Christian Origins, Religious Fundamentalism, Visual Sociology, and Method and Theory in the Study of Religionedit
Aline O'Brien
Cherry Hill Seminary
Board Member, former Board President, former Department Chair, former Faculty
Board of Directors Department
Michael Puett
History, Literature, Cultural History, Anthropology, and 14 moreHistory of Religion, Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Chinese Studies, Chinese history (History), Chinese Religions, Chinese Philosophy, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Ritual Theory, Ritual (Anthropology), Ritual, Ritual Studies, Archaeology, and Anthropology of Religionedit



























