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Susannah Crockford

Susannah Crockford is an anthropologist at the University of Exeter, where she researches cultural understandings of medicine, environment, and religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press, and her second monograph, A Perturbed System: Ethnographic Fragments from the End of a World, is in preparation for the same publisher. She is the editor of Fieldwork in Religion. This publication was made possible through the support of grant #63243 ​from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow on BlueSky: @suscrockford.bsky.social.

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Religion Dispatches
Almost as soon as the tear gas cleared from the Capitol grounds on Jan 6, multiple stories emerged. About what happened, and when, and who was responsible. A year later, we can look back and see that…
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Religion Dispatches
“Are imperfect people welcome in the health freedom movement?” asks an email sitting presumptuously at the top of my inbox, piquing my interest just enough not to delete immediately. Below the banner…
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Religion Dispatches
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque glee. The becostumed horde, thronging through the windows, up the stairways, politely abiding by the…
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