Edward P. Butler, PhD

At the 22nd collective study session of the CCP Politburo, Xi Jinping stressed the need for systematic advancement of Sinicization of religions in China and active guidance for religions to adapt to a... The CCP Politburo holds “collective study sessions” on a semi-regular basis, in which an outside academic or government expert leads a discussion on a selected topic. Such sessions can signal which is...

"Xi Jinping pointed out that only by remaining rooted in Chinese soil and steeped in Chinese culture can religions in China be passed down healthily." interpret.csis.org/translations...

Xi Jinping Calls for Accelerated ‘Sinicization of Religion’ Under Party Leadership chinascope.org/archives/39226

Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years? Members of the Dievturi religion at the Latvian Saeima, 9 October 2025 © Dievturi Sadraudze On Thursday the Latvian Saeima (parliament) passed a rather unusual law that, predictably, has escaped no…

Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years? by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/p...

What is Matsuri？ From prayer to politics to stillness

"To wait for the kami is to live in rhythm with the unseen world and to let holiness reveal itself when it is ready. Through this act of waiting, matsuri becomes not a ritual of motion but a stillness that holds all things." What is Matsuri? open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p...

Thank you, it’s gratifying to be able to find readers receptive to such subtle and even arcane reflections.

More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter Contemporary reflections on technophany always seem to involve Prometheus, rarely Hephaestus, though technology is the latter’s explicit timē, and is embedded, moreover, in His mythic ‘birth’, inasmuc...

New Substack post: More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter open.substack.com/pub/epbutler...

Bodies that Mattered @ Sidestone Press Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by foc...

Bodies that Mattered: Ancient Egyptian Corporealities (Free to read online, though not to download) www.sidestone.com/books/bodies...

Register now for this amazing class series #Voodoo #Vodou #AfricanTraditionalReligion

The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions, with Author and Priestess Lilith Dorsey MFA, Begins October 21 — Morbid Anatomy Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Tuesdays, October 21 - November 25, 2025 7 - 8:30 pm ET (NYC Time) $150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be rec...

The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions with @lilithdorsey.bsky.social begins October 21 www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...

CFP: Annual ICHS USF Conference: Souls and Psychological Phenomena in Greek Antiquity (Tampa, Florida, April 23 – 25, 2026) www.usf.edu/arts-science...

A Datura Ritual Complex in the Mississippian Southeast In the American Southwest and northern Mexico, it has long been argued that ceramic vessels with exterior surfaces that are covered with small nodes are Datura seed pod effigies. Datura is a genus of ...

A Datura Ritual Complex in the Mississippian Southeast www.academia.edu/144345670/A_...

Donate to Save Our Beloved Community Temple, organized by Anu L Namaste, everyone, We are writing on behalf of the Indo-Caribbean Sri Shakti Mariamma Hind… Anu L needs your support for Save Our Beloved Community Temple

The Indo-Caribbean Sri Shakti Mariamma Hindu Temple in Queens, New York urgently needs help to fund mandatory repairs and stay open. gofund.me/aa0f6c6b5

A fight to save a Hindu temple for the 'unheard and unseen' NEW YORK (RNS) — Since 2008, Shri Shakti Mariammaa has been a safe haven for women and members of the LGBTQ community. But the temple risks closure if it cannot make costly improvements.

Sharing again this article (and fundraising page in the following post) about a local Indo-Caribbean Kali mandir in need. religionnews.com/2025/07/16/a...

October 7-8, Bookshop has free shipping. It's a platform where you can shop online from independent booksellers. Some of my own books are available there, and I earn a commission on other books ordered from my storefront. bookshop.org/shop/epbutler

Program for the fifth annual conference of the Canadian Aristotle Society; this year's theme, "Aristotle and the De Anima" www.uottawa.ca/faculty-arts...

CFP for several virtual round tables: Deus e o Divino nas Tradições Ayahuasca, Kardecistas e Indígenas Brasileiras; Concepções de Realidade Última nas Tradições Vedānta; and Conceptions of Divinity in African and Afro-Brazilian Religions www.god-and-consciousness.com/round-tables

Academic Responsibility as Rome Burns: Humane Deliberation in Times of Exigency, by Eli Kramer open.substack.com/pub/palinode...

New post up on my Substack: "Some thoughts on disjunctive difference within 'the same' God: A further reply to Antonio Vargas" open.substack.com/pub/epbutler...

What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans.

What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? | grist.org/global-indig...

YouTube video by Juan simic Lei Sheng Pu Hua Tian Zun (九天應元雷聲普化天尊)

Lei Sheng Pu Hua Tian Zun (九天應元雷聲普化天尊) youtu.be/a5UYkr2zUwA

《乙巳蛇年。普化天尊。化身下降日。2025》 《 乙 巳蛇 年。 普化天尊。化身下降日。 202 5 》     宏大願， 誓揚正法護生靈， 納其轟勢， 震三界。   增智慧， 掃除心魔衛己身， 授其經訣， 淨七魄。   Manifestation Anniversary ...

Manifestation Anniversary of Heavenly Lord Pu Hua (Pu Hua Tian Zun 普化天尊), lunar 8/5, Sept. 26th, 2025 javewutaoismplace.blogspot.com/2025/09/2025...

DeM numero 16 – Anno 2025 Numero 16 – anno 2025 Gli articoli di DeM sono pubblicati a seguito di un processo di double blind peer review affidato a specialisti esterni (non esclusi i componenti del Comitato Scientifico), incar...

New issue of the open access journal Dionysus ex machina dionysusexmachina.it/dem-numero-1...

Those were my grad school days as well. A lot has changed!

Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy After AI Critical Philosophy After AI

Now available for pre-order, the new book from @digitalobjects.bsky.social—Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI bookshop.org/a/17266/9781... (#advertisement)

Ancient Philosophy Society Call for Papers Honoring the richness of Anglophone and European philosophical traditions, the Ancient Philosophy Society encourages submissions from a variety of interpretive perspectives. Phenomenological, postm…

Call for papers, Ancient Philosophy Society annual meeting (April 16-18, 2026)
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Call for submissions for a special issue of Synthese, "Back to Personal Identity"
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Fifth Daoist Conference | Daoist Gate

Fifth Daoist Conference: Daoism, Divination, and Healing Arts (Oct. 4-5) daoistgate.com/fifth-daoist...

The ghost-feeing hymn in the Yuqie Yankou 瑜伽焰口 In this post I will translate the hymn of feeding ghosts from the 瑜伽焰口 YujiaYyankou/Yuqie Yankou    Hun Yeow Lye in his PHD thesis, entitled...

The ghost-feeding hymn in the Yuqie Yankou 瑜伽焰口 by @edwardw2.bsky.social edwardwhite123.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Donate to Help Coru Families Rebuild After Theft, organized by Morpheus Ravenna Hello friends! This fundraiser is on behalf of two families who are part of th… Morpheus Ravenna needs your support for Help Coru Families Rebuild After Theft

Fundraiser on behalf of Coru Cathubodua, a polytheist priesthood of the Morrigan gofund.me/0c2b9e7b5

Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains - Philosophy & Technology A key assumption fuelling optimism about the progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) in accurately and comprehensively modelling the world is that the truth is systematic: true statements about the w...

Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains link.springer.com/article/10.1...