Toward a folklore theology: I've translated some remarkable Cypriana from Norway and am delighted to be able to share them with you! Now available from Hadean Press for the price of a coffee:

"Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World" Michael Richardson dukeupress.edu/nonhuman-witne…

I’m excited to share my new piece “Touching Lourdes: Collection & Tactile Pedagogy.” I reflect on using religious objects in the classroom, touch as research method, & the pleasures & obsessions of collecting #DevotionalStuff collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/tou…

The new Chicago Manual of Style is out and it's no longer required to mention place of publication. It's a sad day for Basingstoke.

My forthcoming book with Columbia Univ Press, 'Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being', now has a webpage and an exciting blurb! Available to preorder, published January 2025 🎉 cup.columbia.edu/book/impossibl…

What are your favourite examples of theological themes in pop culture? Could be music, film, tv, anything at all... Crowdsourcing ideas for a lecture I'm giving later this term. Would love to hear yours! 🎶🍿📺

Final proofs!

Simone Weil died on August 24, 1943 aged just 34 years. 81 years after her death, there is a renaissance in Weil scholarship ongoing. Watch this space for more events soon!

Norwegian Adder, minding its own business by the lake Dr Simone Kotva

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of E. Jane Doering, a member of our community for over 30 years and an influential and artful scholar of Simone Weil's thought.

David Bentley Hart’s new book, ‘All Things Are Full of Gods’, a 500+ page Socratic dialogue, is out today: 27th August—Hegel’s birthday. Is this a coincidence or signifying the completion of the system of German idealism?

What are your favourite ONE VOLUME systematic theologies?

Shout out to Douglas Christie's new **on-line** course on Christian mysticism, IN SEARCH OF A WAY. This looks like a fabulous program: crs.lmu.edu/programs/way/#…

"We tend, said Weil, to think about attention as something one does in order to achieve a goal, when in fact any philosopher will tell you that they arrived at their greatest discoveries not when they were exerting themselves to the utmost but when they were no longer trying and

Titles that seemed like a good idea at the time.

Thank you, mysticism twitter/X. You make the platform worth it. .

My lecture notes from today's class discussion of "what is mysticism," drawing heavily from Louis Nelstrop's encyclopedia entry on "mysticism" in the Vocabulary for the Study of Religion.

I am continually fascinated by the postmortem cancelling of Weil. Most attempts rest on what seem wilful misreadings of paradox as contradiction. Paradox -- esp. Weil's way of welding it -- is *really* hard to do well and even harder to parse adequately. Cf. Blanchot on Weil.

Our Lady of Sorrows carried out onto the beach at Catalan Bay, Gibraltar, for the annual blessing of the sea.

As the academic study of religion was developing in the late 19th c, European and Euro-American Protestant scholars constructed hierarchies with Indigenous religions at the bottom. One of the ways they justified this was the purported lack of ethics among Indigenous traditions.