Graduate Student, Ethics
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Richard Amesbury
Santiago Slabodsky |
About
I am a PhD student in Religion, Ethics, and Society at Claremont School of Theology (Claremont Lincoln University). I explore the historically constructed boundaries of the category of religion, particularly in relationship with peripheral or excluded categories like ghosts. While there has been a resurgence of interest in ghosts in folklore, anthropology, sociology, literature and continental philosophy ("the gothic turn"), no such resurgence has occurred in religious studies. My work explores the reasons for this absence in the field of religion. Secondarily, I am also interested in Christian theology, Buddhism and theories of religious pluralism.
