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...
Challenging the Orientalist exoticisation of mantras and their restriction to 'Eastern religions', Joseph L. Kimmel traces the understanding, practice, and purp…