Crockford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 43309 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Crockford |
| APELLIDO | Crockford |
| FIRMA | CROCKFORD |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5057-9263 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
When the Moon Turns to Blood
when the moon turns to blood tells the grisly story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, which started with the search for Vallow's two missing children, Tylee Ryan (age sixteen) and Joshua Jaxon “J. J.” Vallow (age seven), in 2019 as the COVID-19 pandemic began and only ended recently with the convictions of Vallow and Daybell. The missing persons’ hunt cast light on further deaths around the couple: two of Vallow's five former husbands and Daybell'…
Light
That Which They Will Not See
Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US - Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri - based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction of ignorance, the argument is made that this literatur…
Founder’s Syndrome
Why would establishing a business resemble starting a religion? When group relations start to break down, why might it feel like a cult? This article examines the blurred lines between religion and business through a focus on the small-scale action of individuals trying to start something that has both economic and spiritual aspects but does not neatly fit into either category. Ethnographically situated in participant observation fieldwork in Sed…
Preparing for the Coming Storm
New age spirituality has long involved ecospirituality and nature religion. It has also typically been associated with left-wing politics. However, I argue that this political assumption is no longer tenable, and that right-wing political positions, particularly libertarianism, are a prominent feature of contemporary new age spirituality. People involved in new age spirituality remain committed to nature and ecospirituality, but they now fuse the…
Republicanism as Bad Religion
Since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, it has become commonplace for his opponents to refer to him as a “cult leader.” The apparent fanaticism of his supporters inspires both awe and fear in observers. His propensity to disseminate conspiracy theories and alleged encouragement of the Jan 6 insurrection pushes Trump beyond the boundaries of political norms. In this article, I trace the elements of Trump’s rhetorical and political style …
Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea
Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021), xii + 417 pp, $27.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9780393651447
Derrick Peterson, Flat Earth and Fake Footnotes
Derrick Peterson, Flat Earth and Fake Footnotes (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021), 359pp., $44.00 (pbk), ISBN: 9781532653339
The Nature of the Religious Right
Animating Irony
Contemporary politics seems to be saturated with irony. In the context of social movements, this creates a perplexing mix of sincerity and insincerity, in which ambivalence and irreverence are coupled with deep conviction and (sometimes deadly) serious action. Writing as a multidisciplinary collective, the authors have witnessed irony playing a crucial role in diverse social movements - from BlackLivesMatter activists in Ghana, to post-crash poli…
Searching for the Forest among the Trees
Scholars working in yoga studies tend to employ tree metaphors. Following Elizabeth De Michelis, who described modern postural yoga as “the graft of a Western branch on to the Indian tree of yoga,” silvan imagery predominates.1 Thematically and theoretically, yoga studies is also flourishing from seeds planted by the work of De Michelis and also of Mark Singleton.2 Establishing modern postural yoga as a modified form of “esoteric gymnastics” rath…
How to manifest abundance
Manifestation is a spiritual practice with material gains. It is a way for those involved with spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, to make money as required while maintaining a level of consonance between their economic life and spiritual path. Analysing the entwinement of economics and religion in everyday life, this article contributes to literature on spiritual economies and, more broadly, to the anthropology of money. Manifestation is a way of f…
Ocean Thinking
How do scientists produce the ocean as space through their work and words? In this article, I examine how the techniques and tools of oceanographers constitute ocean science. Bringing theoretical literature from science and technology studies on how scientists “do” science into conversation with fine-grained ethnographic and sociological accounts of scientists in the field, I explore how ocean science is made, produced, and negotiated. Within thi…
Becoming a Being of Pure Consciousness
Fasting is an unexplored area of New Age spirituality. Using material that is primarily ethnographic, based on long-term participant observation fieldwork in Sedona, Arizona, a small town renowned for its New Age associations, this article examines some forms of fasting that are commonly recommended and attempted in New Age spirituality. The ethnographic data are supplemented with material drawn from two New Age spiritual leaders who are connecte…
Spells of belonging
Anna Tuckett’s piece on the paper trails left, created and curated by migrant streams crossing Europe raises questions on how social personhood is legally affirmed or undermined by legal paperwork. As is now a well aired fact, those UK citizens affected by the ‘hostile environment’ instituted by the British Home Office (HO) from 2012 onwards were disproportionately black and descended from former Caribbean colonies (Olusoga 2019). I consider my e…
Thank God for the greatest country on earth
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 has been identified by observers as the outcome of a wave of nationalist populism in the U.S.A. This article interrogates the meaning of nationalist populism in contemporary American culture with respect to far-right extremism. White supremacists, border vigilantes, and survivalists are forms of far-right extremism that illuminate the nationalist populism of mainstream right-wing American politics. In particul…
How Do You Know When You're in a Cult
This article examines representations of Peoples Temple in popular culture through the lens of mimesis, understood as a process of repetition and re-creation of specific elements. This process produces what is understood as a "cult" in popular culture, which is divorced from the complex historical reality of Peoples Temple. Three symbolic strands combine to construct the concept of a "cult": the power of a charismatic leader, isolation from outsi…
Surviving with Guns in Rural Arizona
Lure of the Arcane
Book Review| May 01 2015 Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy. By Theodore Ziolkowski. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 248 pages. $39.95 cloth. Susannah Crockford Susannah Crockford London School Of Economics Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 131–132. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.131 View…
Entering the Crack Between the Worlds
This paper will explore shared symbols in Western shamanism, their meanings and signification. Shamanism is a contested and multivalent term, so first there will be a theoretical delimitation of what is meant by Western shamanism. The definition presented is a religious practice found in contemporary Western society. Symbolism will then be analysed through three main categories. The first category of symbols will be the use of darkness/light meta…
Shamanisms and the authenticity of religious experience
Shamanic practices and practitioners in western countries are often derided as 'inauthentic' by both scholars and members of indigenous communities. The experience derived from such practices is therefore also implied to be contrived. This paper analyses shamanism in the UK as part of 'western shamanism' rather than 'neo-shamanism'. Western shamanism is understood to be a valid religious tradition found in Europe and America that is based on west…
Thank God for the greatest country on earth
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 has been identified by observers as the outcome of a wave of nationalist populism in the U.S.A. This article interrogates the meaning of nationalist populism in contemporary American culture with respect to far-right extremism. White supremacists, border vigilantes, and survivalists are forms of far-right extremism that illuminate the nationalist populism of mainstream right-wing American politics. In particul…
That Which They Will Not See
Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US - Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri - based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction of ignorance, the argument is made that this literatur…
How to manifest abundance
Manifestation is a spiritual practice with material gains. It is a way for those involved with spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, to make money as required while maintaining a level of consonance between their economic life and spiritual path. Analysing the entwinement of economics and religion in everyday life, this article contributes to literature on spiritual economies and, more broadly, to the anthropology of money. Manifestation is a way of f…
Spells of belonging
Anna Tuckett’s piece on the paper trails left, created and curated by migrant streams crossing Europe raises questions on how social personhood is legally affirmed or undermined by legal paperwork. As is now a well aired fact, those UK citizens affected by the ‘hostile environment’ instituted by the British Home Office (HO) from 2012 onwards were disproportionately black and descended from former Caribbean colonies (Olusoga 2019). I consider my e…
Shamanisms and the authenticity of religious experience
Shamanic practices and practitioners in western countries are often derided as 'inauthentic' by both scholars and members of indigenous communities. The experience derived from such practices is therefore also implied to be contrived. This paper analyses shamanism in the UK as part of 'western shamanism' rather than 'neo-shamanism'. Western shamanism is understood to be a valid religious tradition found in Europe and America that is based on west…
Entering the Crack Between the Worlds
This paper will explore shared symbols in Western shamanism, their meanings and signification. Shamanism is a contested and multivalent term, so first there will be a theoretical delimitation of what is meant by Western shamanism. The definition presented is a religious practice found in contemporary Western society. Symbolism will then be analysed through three main categories. The first category of symbols will be the use of darkness/light meta…
Lure of the Arcane
Book Review| May 01 2015 Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy. By Theodore Ziolkowski. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 248 pages. $39.95 cloth. Susannah Crockford Susannah Crockford London School Of Economics Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 131–132. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.131 View…
Surviving with Guns in Rural Arizona
Thank God for the greatest country on earth
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 has been identified by observers as the outcome of a wave of nationalist populism in the U.S.A. This article interrogates the meaning of nationalist populism in contemporary American culture with respect to far-right extremism. White supremacists, border vigilantes, and survivalists are forms of far-right extremism that illuminate the nationalist populism of mainstream right-wing American politics. In particul…
How Do You Know When You're in a Cult
This article examines representations of Peoples Temple in popular culture through the lens of mimesis, understood as a process of repetition and re-creation of specific elements. This process produces what is understood as a "cult" in popular culture, which is divorced from the complex historical reality of Peoples Temple. Three symbolic strands combine to construct the concept of a "cult": the power of a charismatic leader, isolation from outsi…
Becoming a Being of Pure Consciousness
Fasting is an unexplored area of New Age spirituality. Using material that is primarily ethnographic, based on long-term participant observation fieldwork in Sedona, Arizona, a small town renowned for its New Age associations, this article examines some forms of fasting that are commonly recommended and attempted in New Age spirituality. The ethnographic data are supplemented with material drawn from two New Age spiritual leaders who are connecte…
Spells of belonging
Anna Tuckett’s piece on the paper trails left, created and curated by migrant streams crossing Europe raises questions on how social personhood is legally affirmed or undermined by legal paperwork. As is now a well aired fact, those UK citizens affected by the ‘hostile environment’ instituted by the British Home Office (HO) from 2012 onwards were disproportionately black and descended from former Caribbean colonies (Olusoga 2019). I consider my e…
Ocean Thinking
How do scientists produce the ocean as space through their work and words? In this article, I examine how the techniques and tools of oceanographers constitute ocean science. Bringing theoretical literature from science and technology studies on how scientists “do” science into conversation with fine-grained ethnographic and sociological accounts of scientists in the field, I explore how ocean science is made, produced, and negotiated. Within thi…
Searching for the Forest among the Trees
Scholars working in yoga studies tend to employ tree metaphors. Following Elizabeth De Michelis, who described modern postural yoga as “the graft of a Western branch on to the Indian tree of yoga,” silvan imagery predominates.1 Thematically and theoretically, yoga studies is also flourishing from seeds planted by the work of De Michelis and also of Mark Singleton.2 Establishing modern postural yoga as a modified form of “esoteric gymnastics” rath…
How to manifest abundance
Manifestation is a spiritual practice with material gains. It is a way for those involved with spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, to make money as required while maintaining a level of consonance between their economic life and spiritual path. Analysing the entwinement of economics and religion in everyday life, this article contributes to literature on spiritual economies and, more broadly, to the anthropology of money. Manifestation is a way of f…
Republicanism as Bad Religion
Since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, it has become commonplace for his opponents to refer to him as a “cult leader.” The apparent fanaticism of his supporters inspires both awe and fear in observers. His propensity to disseminate conspiracy theories and alleged encouragement of the Jan 6 insurrection pushes Trump beyond the boundaries of political norms. In this article, I trace the elements of Trump’s rhetorical and political style …
Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea
Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021), xii + 417 pp, $27.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9780393651447
Derrick Peterson, Flat Earth and Fake Footnotes
Derrick Peterson, Flat Earth and Fake Footnotes (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021), 359pp., $44.00 (pbk), ISBN: 9781532653339
The Nature of the Religious Right
Animating Irony
Contemporary politics seems to be saturated with irony. In the context of social movements, this creates a perplexing mix of sincerity and insincerity, in which ambivalence and irreverence are coupled with deep conviction and (sometimes deadly) serious action. Writing as a multidisciplinary collective, the authors have witnessed irony playing a crucial role in diverse social movements - from BlackLivesMatter activists in Ghana, to post-crash poli…
Founder’s Syndrome
Why would establishing a business resemble starting a religion? When group relations start to break down, why might it feel like a cult? This article examines the blurred lines between religion and business through a focus on the small-scale action of individuals trying to start something that has both economic and spiritual aspects but does not neatly fit into either category. Ethnographically situated in participant observation fieldwork in Sed…
Preparing for the Coming Storm
New age spirituality has long involved ecospirituality and nature religion. It has also typically been associated with left-wing politics. However, I argue that this political assumption is no longer tenable, and that right-wing political positions, particularly libertarianism, are a prominent feature of contemporary new age spirituality. People involved in new age spirituality remain committed to nature and ecospirituality, but they now fuse the…
Light
That Which They Will Not See
Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US - Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri - based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction of ignorance, the argument is made that this literatur…
When the Moon Turns to Blood
when the moon turns to blood tells the grisly story of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, which started with the search for Vallow's two missing children, Tylee Ryan (age sixteen) and Joshua Jaxon “J. J.” Vallow (age seven), in 2019 as the COVID-19 pandemic began and only ended recently with the convictions of Vallow and Daybell. The missing persons’ hunt cast light on further deaths around the couple: two of Vallow's five former husbands and Daybell'…
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