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August 27, 2020May 5, 2023

Essays

Religiousness blog, Psychology Today,
The Civil War Drastically Reshaped How Americans Deal With Death. Will the Pandemic?
My Dad Died While I was Teaching Death and Dying
Dangerous Pedagogy: Takeaways from Taking Sacred Drugs
My Joe Rogan Experience, Experience
Why I’m Easy
How Would You Teach Intro to Religion?
Drugs and Religion: Same Thing?
Religion (Whatever That Is) This Year
A Night in Amsterdam on Drugs
Psychedelics for Mind, Body, and… Spirit?
Just Say Yes: In Drugs We Trust
Why Take “Sacred Drugs”?
Suicide: The Last Taboo?
With the Dead in Paradise: American Memorial Day, Floating Lanterns, and Free-Floating Spirituality.
Learning to Die
Mortality Now: Top 5 Reminders of Death for Aging Baby Boomers
The Sacred Matter of Guns in American History
The Kids Are Alright with Religion
Christianity in Crisis? Blame Elvis
2015: The Year in Religion
American Religion: Less is More
How Emory University is Helping Students to Ask the Big Questions
Confusing Religion in a Nutshell
The Top 5 Reasons to Study Religion
The Future of Religion is….The Dead
Funereal Choices
Debatable Origins
Religion is Dead: Long Live…The Sacred
LSD

Books

My first book, basically my dissertation, was good fun to write, and I still get a kick out of reading it, especially the opening that explores the afterlife of two corpses in 1799: the nation’s first president, George Washington; and an anonymous suicide.

My second book, a sequel to the first, continues the story after Lincoln’s death and funeral journey in 1865, and charts the birth and rise of the funeral industry in the years following and through the 20th century. Best part of researching this one: talking with some funeral directors.

My third book has nothing to do with death. Except for that final chapter, really. This one’s more of an overview of the sacred as a source of varied and often unrecognized religious life in American cultures.

My fourth book gets back on target, with a combination of personal stories with death, and other published writings.

My first book, basically my dissertation, was good fun to write, and I still get a kick out of reading it, especially the opening that explores the afterlife of two corpses in 1799: the nation’s first president, George Washington; and an anonymous suicide.

My second book, a sequel to the first, continues the story after Lincoln’s death and funeral journey in 1865, and charts the birth and rise of the funeral industry in the years following and through the 20th century. Best part of researching this one: talking with some funeral directors.

My third book has nothing to do with death. Except for that final chapter, really. This one’s more of an overview of the sacred as a source of varied and often unrecognized religious life in American cultures.

My fourth book gets back on target, with a combination of personal stories with death, and other published writings.

My first book, basically my dissertation, was good fun to write, and I still get a kick out of reading it, especially the opening that explores the afterlife of two corpses in 1799: the nation’s first president, George Washington; and an anonymous suicide.

My second book, a sequel to the first, continues the story after Lincoln’s death and funeral journey in 1865, and charts the birth and rise of the funeral industry in the years following and through the 20th century. Best part of researching this one: talking with some funeral directors.

My third book has nothing to do with death. Except for that final chapter, really. This one’s more of an overview of the sacred as a source of varied and often unrecognized religious life in American cultures.

My fourth book gets back on target, with a combination of personal stories with death, and other published writings.

Edited Collections

The first book I edited, a project that arose after I was hired at Emory, a couple of years before the 1996 Summer Olympics. The chairperson at the time, Paul Courtright, thought it might be a useful collection, so I rallied some writers, mostly graduate students and some friends, and we got it out right on time. And somehow we corralled a former President to write the Foreword.

I co-edited this with a great friend, Luis Leon, who I met in graduate school at UCSB. A major collaborative editing and writing project, and one I’m proud to be a part of because of him.

I co-edited this multi-volume set with a great colleague at Emory, Arri Eisen. We had a number of great years generating and collaborating on various Emory-related science and religion initiatives. This is a product of those years. And somehow we roped in His Holiness, the Dali Lama, to write the Preface.

The first book I edited, a project that arose after I was hired at Emory, a couple of years before the 1996 Summer Olympics. The chairperson at the time, Paul Courtright, thought it might be a useful collection, so I rallied some writers, mostly graduate students and some friends, and we got it out right on time. And somehow we corralled a former President to write the Foreword.

I co-edited this with a great friend, Luis Leon, who I met in graduate school at UCSB. A major collaborative editing and writing project, and one I’m proud to be a part of because of him.

I co-edited this multi-volume set with a great colleague at Emory, Arri Eisen. We had a number of great years generating and collaborating on various Emory-related science and religion initiatives. This is a product of those years. And somehow we roped in His Holiness, the Dali Lama, to write the Preface.

The first book I edited, a project that arose after I was hired at Emory, a couple of years before the 1996 Summer Olympics. The chairperson at the time, Paul Courtright, thought it might be a useful collection, so I rallied some writers, mostly graduate students and some friends, and we got it out right on time. And somehow we corralled a former President to write the Foreword.

I co-edited this with a great friend, Luis Leon, who I met in graduate school at UCSB. A major collaborative editing and writing project, and one I’m proud to be a part of because of him.

I co-edited this multi-volume set with a great colleague at Emory, Arri Eisen. We had a number of great years generating and collaborating on various Emory-related science and religion initiatives. This is a product of those years. And somehow we roped in His Holiness, the Dali Lama, to write the Preface.

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