Hot off the press! New JSNT article on names and naming in the Apocalypse of John: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
josephkimmel.bsky.social
@josephkimmel.bsky.social
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)
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...
The Social Lives of Mantras
Challenging the Orientalist exoticisation of mantras and their restriction to 'Eastern religions', Joseph L. Kimmel traces the understanding, practice, and purp…
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If you're interested in divine names in early Christianity and/or comparative theological analysis, check out my book: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
