The Editors

Pew’s new survey on Jewish Americans has thus far inspired anxiety, skepticism and even a few yawns. So RD asked an eminent group of writers, scholars and activists to respond to the brief prompt: “So what?”

Here, in the order in which the Ouija board instructed us to offer them, is an assortment of stories about ghosts, death, fundamentalists, and general spookiness.

Spiritual experiences can occur in a hospital setting as well as in a shamanistic ritual, says researcher.