{"id":5590,"date":"2013-06-10T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T23:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2013-06-10T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T23:31:46","slug":"survey-your-spiritual-relationship-with-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5590","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Your Spiritual Relationship with Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabina Magliocco<\/a>, anthropologist and folklorist and author of Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America<\/em>, among other books, has a new research project underway on people’s spiritual relationships with animals.<\/p>\n

The purpose of this study is to understand how we imagine our relationship to animals, how we incorporate animals into our spiritual or religious beliefs, and how this may motivate our actions in the everyday world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She invites you to take her survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Magliocco, anthropologist and folklorist and author of Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America, among other books, has a new research project underway on people’s spiritual relationships with animals. The purpose of this study is to understand how we imagine our relationship to animals, how we incorporate animals into our spiritual or religious beliefs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,68,4],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-animism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1sa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4437,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4437","url_meta":{"origin":5590,"position":0},"title":"Puppy Mills for the Gods","author":"Chas S. 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