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Susannah Crockford

Susannah Crockford is an anthropologist at the University of Exeter, where she researches cultural understandings of medicine, environment, and religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press, and her second monograph, A Perturbed System: Ethnographic Fragments from the End of a World, is in preparation for the same publisher. She is the editor of Fieldwork in Religion. This publication was made possible through the support of grant #63243 ​from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow on BlueSky: @suscrockford.bsky.social.

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Religion Dispatches
The outlines of QAnon conspiracy theories are by now familiar to many. The battle of good-versus-evil personified by Donald Trump and the Deep State, which somehow also embroils bizarre and gruesome…
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Religion Dispatches
In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright cigar-shaped light on the highway that moved erratically before appearing to chase them. They fled and then told…
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Religion Dispatches
Around 3 a.m. on October 28, David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband, with a hammer. During the attack, DePape yelled “Where’s Nancy?” raising concerns that his…
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