Tag Archives: Joseph Laycock

New essay on the crystal skulls

October 7th, 2015 | Posted in Joseph Laycock, paranormal

I first heard the story of the mysterious crystal skulls when I was a kid in the 1970s through the television program In Search Of… Joseph Laycock has written an essay on them for Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2015) titled “The controversial history of the crystal […]

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Joseph Laycock: Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community

February 29th, 2012 | Posted in hyper-real spiritualities (or fiction-based), Joseph Laycock, Otherkin

Joseph Laycock has written a new article that explores the Otherkin. “We Are Spirits of Another Sort: Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community” By Joseph P. Laycock, PhD Nova Religio – The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions February 2012, Vol. 15, No. 3, Pages 65-90 Purchase Article: http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 Abstract: Otherkin are […]

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Nova Religio Call for Papers: Paranormal, Religion, and Culture

February 20th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, paranormal

Joseph Laycock has recently been given the privilege of guest editing a special issue of Nova Religio on the paranormal. In the last few years, several good books have appeared that consider so-called “paranormal” beliefs, discourses, and experiences as an object of inquiry for religion scholars. Like the category “religion,” the category “paranormal” is poorly […]

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Joseph Laycock on Top 10 Misconceptions of Vampires at Buzznet

August 21st, 2011 | Posted in Joseph Laycock, vampire

Joseph Laycock, author of Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampires (Praeger, 2009), discusses the “Top 10 Misconceptions of Vampires” at Buzznet.

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Joseph Laycock: The Omega Man and Sociophobics of Cults

January 13th, 2011 | Posted in cults, horror, Joseph Laycock, new religious movements, Richard Matheson, The Omega Man

Joseph Laycock, an up and coming scholar of religion and popular culture, has an article in the International Journal for the Study of New Religions Volume 1, No. 2 (2010), titled “Conversion by Infection: The Sociophobic of Cults in the Omega Man.” The abstract: The Omega Man (1971), starring Charlton Heston, is a film adaptation […]

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Joseph Laycock: The Legend of Cain and Vampires in the Bible

July 27th, 2010 | Posted in horror, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Laycock, myths, vampire

Joseph Laycock continues to demonstrate that he is the up and coming religion and vampire scholar for the next generation. He recently wrote an article for Religion Dispatches titled “Vampire Bible: Will Smith and The Legend of Cain.” The article begins with the recent announcement that Will Smith will play the Old Testament biblical character […]

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Joseph Laycock: Vampires and Eclipse

June 30th, 2010 | Posted in Joseph Laycock, Twilight, vampire

Watch this video on YouTubeEclipse recently debuted in theaters, the latest installment in the Twilight series of romance-vampire films, and in connection with this I am pleased to present this video of fellow religion and pop culture scholar Joseph Laycock. He shares some thoughts on the history of the vampire, contemporary vampirism, and the Twilight […]

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