GaryL
@gladerman.bsky.social
Religion Prof at Emory. Teaching, writing, reading about some of the basics: Death, Drugs, Entertainment, Sexuality, and the Sacred. garyladerman.com. New book out now: Sacred Drugs: How Psychoactive Substances Mix with Religious Life.
Sacred Drugs out in a couple months.
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert.
August 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Sacred Drugs out in a couple months.
Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert.
Is everyone high on something?
Coming soon.
Coming soon.
August 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Is everyone high on something?
Coming soon.
Coming soon.
New one.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reli... Can Drugs Help Your Religious Life? | Psychology Today
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reli... Can Drugs Help Your Religious Life? | Psychology Today
Can Drugs Help Your Religious Life?
A recent study asks whether altering consciousness with psychoactive substances can have religious value. Americans take drugs for everything else, why not to enhance spirituality?
www.psychologytoday.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New one.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reli... Can Drugs Help Your Religious Life? | Psychology Today
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reli... Can Drugs Help Your Religious Life? | Psychology Today
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THE meme of 2025 for me.
January 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
THE meme of 2025 for me.
I will never regret writing my MA thesis on the Pre-Raphaelites and death. Interesting essay by Slavoj Žižek.
www.e-flux.com/notes/650324...
www.e-flux.com/notes/650324...
David Lynch as a Pre-Raphaelite - Notes - e-flux
Slavoj Žižek reflects on the signature aesthetics of David Lynch, who died on January 16, 2025.
www.e-flux.com
January 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I will never regret writing my MA thesis on the Pre-Raphaelites and death. Interesting essay by Slavoj Žižek.
www.e-flux.com/notes/650324...
www.e-flux.com/notes/650324...
Posted in 2018 from Davis’s 1999 book. History repeats and sometimes gets worse.
longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads
Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
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January 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Posted in 2018 from Davis’s 1999 book. History repeats and sometimes gets worse.
longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
I wrote an article once called “The Disney Way of Death.” More going on than meets the eye. Students always love this when I show in the Death class.
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I wrote an article once called “The Disney Way of Death.” More going on than meets the eye. Students always love this when I show in the Death class.
I was hired at Emory in 1994. With Atlanta’s Olympics coming in 1996, the chair suggested I do something that highlights religion in Atlanta. We organized a conference at the Carter Center and then I put this collection together. I was shocked when he agreed to write the foreword to the book.
December 31, 2024 at 1:44 PM
I was hired at Emory in 1994. With Atlanta’s Olympics coming in 1996, the chair suggested I do something that highlights religion in Atlanta. We organized a conference at the Carter Center and then I put this collection together. I was shocked when he agreed to write the foreword to the book.
December 27, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Psychedelics for life, and death. What could be more religious than that?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/h...
‘LIfe-Changing’ Psychedelic, for When Life Is Ending
People are turning to psilocybin, ketamine and other treatments for palliative care.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Psychedelics for life, and death. What could be more religious than that?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/h...
One of the last topics we cover in death class is suicide. Students are deeply curious about it and anxious to find a different intellectual frame to explore and understand the reality. We read a bit from this excellent study that puts suicide and death in a very different light.
December 7, 2024 at 1:21 PM
One of the last topics we cover in death class is suicide. Students are deeply curious about it and anxious to find a different intellectual frame to explore and understand the reality. We read a bit from this excellent study that puts suicide and death in a very different light.
After a bit of a holiday break, going to start the Death class with 3 songs instead of one.
December 2, 2024 at 5:44 PM
After a bit of a holiday break, going to start the Death class with 3 songs instead of one.
3 sessions of Death and Dying left this semester. Topics to cover: video games, near-death experiences, psychedelics, and celebrity deaths.
December 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM
3 sessions of Death and Dying left this semester. Topics to cover: video games, near-death experiences, psychedelics, and celebrity deaths.
Suicide is the topic in today’s death and dying class. Trying to think of a song to start off the session. Quite a few to choose from.
November 18, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Suicide is the topic in today’s death and dying class. Trying to think of a song to start off the session. Quite a few to choose from.
Takeaways from the election:
1. There is no God.
2. Maga is not a cult.
3. Maga is a religious culture with deep roots.
4. Maga religious culture is powered by destructive sacred forces: chaos, hatred, demonization, sensationalism, violence
5. Money trumps morality.
1. There is no God.
2. Maga is not a cult.
3. Maga is a religious culture with deep roots.
4. Maga religious culture is powered by destructive sacred forces: chaos, hatred, demonization, sensationalism, violence
5. Money trumps morality.
November 17, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Takeaways from the election:
1. There is no God.
2. Maga is not a cult.
3. Maga is a religious culture with deep roots.
4. Maga religious culture is powered by destructive sacred forces: chaos, hatred, demonization, sensationalism, violence
5. Money trumps morality.
1. There is no God.
2. Maga is not a cult.
3. Maga is a religious culture with deep roots.
4. Maga religious culture is powered by destructive sacred forces: chaos, hatred, demonization, sensationalism, violence
5. Money trumps morality.
