Rather than be dismissed or pathologized, claims about spirit releasement therapy might better be understood from the lens of gothic psychology.

People experience each other and their shared environments through communal spaces. Often, these shared spaces allow residents of neighbourhoods to affiliate a sense of identity and placemaking and foster socio-economic relations. Homelessness, exacerbated by growing socio-economic inequality in cities, manifests itself in external, public, and frequently hostile urban settings. Although architectural investigations seek solutions to provide basic shelter to persons experiencing displacement, their community spaces often remain largely overlooked. This paper underscores the need for more effective community spaces, in addition to basic shelter, in homeless re-housing projects. It investigates social and structural paradigms to create spaces of opportunity that provide a safe space for community interaction, fostering social relations and even employment opportunities while recognising social challenges such as reticence among shelter residents due to mistrust, fear of theft and more. Beyond social challenges, the research investigates some challenges related to the employment of more inclusive and participatory design processes and the development of low-cost, adaptable and durable architectural solutions that are safe and effective but do not require a building permit. Working along with a non-profit housing organisation in Seattle, Washington, a team of university students and instructors revealed through this study a necessity for multifaceted approaches towards the design and construction of communal spaces that can be built inexpensively and within code requirements on a variety of sites with more significant community member input. The outcome of this research is a catalogue of shelter systems - a ‘recipe book’ called “Recipes of Hope”- with tectonic elements - called ‘ingredients’- categorised as structure or skin that can be combined by non-profit developers, builders and residents to create safe, sociable, and structurally efficient communal gathering places, that emanate an environment of joy and hope.

Welcome to Time and Mind 14.2. A great deal of the focus of our journal is on the interaction of human minds with non-human environments, objects and entities – animals, plants, rocks, and the othe...

This paper introduces JSRE Vol. 7, No. 1, with the theme of 'The Future of Research on Religious and Spiritual Experience.'

Welcome to Time and Mind 14.4, the final issue for 2021 and the end of another strange year for many of us. The theme that has emerged from the papers collected here is a long-running one for our journal, and centres around the role of different modes of perception and other forms of consciousness – human and non-human – in the creation of archaeological and ethnographic sites and artefacts. This issue draws on recent philosophical and empirical developments to explore the implications of an expanded awareness of the role of different forms and modalities of consciousness for archaeological and anthropological theorising about people, art, places and objects. Contributions to this issue include discussions of the role of magical perception in palaeolithic cave art, an effort to rediscover the pre-colonial soundscapes of Swahili coastal towns and an exploration of the possible subjective lives of early medieval swords.

This paper explores some of the threads that connect landscape, folklore and ecology before introducing the papers in this special issue on 'Landscape and Folklore.'

Tremlett, Paul-François, Graham Harvey and Liam T. Sutherland (eds) 2017. Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture. London: Bloomsbury. 219pp. ISBN: 978-1-3599-9341-5 £85.00 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-3500-0342-2 £73.44 (e-pub); ISBN: 978-1-3500-0343-9 (e-pdf).