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🎓🌍 4 POSTDOC POSITIONS OPEN!
💥 Join the ERC Synergy MANTRAMS 🎧 Sonic soteriology & sacred soundscapes 🩺 Healing & mantra efficacy 🥁 Drumming, gendered voices & sonic subalterns 🌐 Digital archives & sound mapping 📬 Deadline: 1 September 2025 🔗 Apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Four Postdoc Positions (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
uni-tuebingen.de
July 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Our book uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/corona... is an outstanding academic title 2024 according to Choice, the Association of College and Research Libraries. Congratulations to us 🎉 and all our fabulous collaborators
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#coronasur #religion #covid #asia
CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
For an open-access edition and online resources, including video and additional images, visit the CoronAsur page on Manifold. the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday…
uhpress.hawaii.edu
May 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reposted
Meet Dr. Carola Lorea
Principal Investigator, MANTRAMS Project
Head of Task Force 2: Sonic Efficacy
April 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Pandemic leftovers by a vending machine in Cisternino, Italy. #coronasur #pandemicleftovers #religion&covid19
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Resilience in exile: a new blog article on post pandemic adaptations among Tibetan refugees in India. Contributed by Gurmeet Kaur for #Coronasur. ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-124/
April 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Is there a "new normal" for Durga Puja in Kolkata? Is Puja back with vengeance, after Covidian restrictions? Here are some answers! Check out the blog piece by Xenia Zeiler for CoronAsur.
ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-122/?f...
ari.nus.edu.sg
April 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A new CoronAsur blog series on "pandemic leftovers"! These mini articles are about ritual innovations and social changes that have outlived the Covid pandemic, and are now part of our "new normal".
ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-123/
#religion #pandemic #anthropology #asia #ritual #coronasur
April 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A touching article by anthropologist Ajay Saini with folktales of the Nicobarese people, warning us that the future of forests is the future of life. frontline.thehindu.com/environment/... #andamans #anthropology #nicobar #folklore
Great Nicobar Megaproject: Will 10 Million Trees and an Indigenous Culture Vanish?
The Great Nicobar Megaproject threatens to destroy 10 million trees and disrupt the lives of the indigenous Nicobarese people. Once tsunami survivors, they now face another disaster—mass deforestation...
frontline.thehindu.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Rosalind Hackett and I gave a podcast interview to talk about sound, religions, a sonic turn in religious studies and an acoustemology of the post-secular. Here's the link! newbooksnetwork.com/religious-so...

#religiousstudies #soundstudies #Asianstudies #decolonizingknowledge
Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, "Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM