Scholar of early Christianity and comparative theology | Harvard PhD 2023 | Completing a monograph for OUP on comparative demonologies | Adjunct Professor at Boston College | Assistant Rector at St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church (Lincoln, MA)
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New monograph in production on comparative mantric practices (e.g., in Vedic rituals, Tibetan Buddhist rites, early Christian invocations, modern manifestation practices), empowered speech acts, and relationships between humans and divinities: www.bloomsbury.com/us/social-li...
If you're interested in divine names in early Christianity and/or comparative theological analysis, check out my book: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Challenging the Orientalist exoticisation of mantras and their restriction to 'Eastern religions', Joseph L. Kimmel traces the understanding, practice, and purp…