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John Dulin

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Biography

John Dulin received his PhD in Sociocultural from the University of California, San Diego in 2016. Between 2016 and 2018 he conducted research as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His research interests include the study of human values, symbolic and semiotic anthropology, interreligious relations, and religious experience, with a geographic focus on North America, Ethiopia, and Ghana. As an Assistant Professor of anthropology at UVU, he teaches classes on the anthropology of religion, ethnographic methods, and contemporary anthropological theory.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

Forthcoming. Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana. American Anthropologist.

Forthcoming. Value-Dense Indexes and the Escalation of a Muslim-Christian Conflict. History and Anthropology.

2020. Introduction: Religion, Secrecy, and the Ethics of Discernment. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (co-authored with Simon Coleman). Early online publication.

2020. `My Fast is better than your Fast?: Concealing Interreligious Evaluations and Discerning Respectful Others in Gondar, Ethiopia. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Early online publication.

2020. Vulnerable Minds, Bodily-Thoughts, and Sensory Spirits: Cultural Theory of Mind and Spiritual Experience in Ghana. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 26(S1): 61-76.

2017. Transvaluing ISIS in Orthodox Christian-Majority Ethiopia: On the Inhibition of Group Violence. Current Anthropology. 58(6): 785-804.

2015. Reversing Rupture: Evangelicals' Practice of Jewish Rituals and Processes of Protestant Inclusion. Anthropological Quarterly. 88(3): 601-634.

2013. Messianic Judaism as a mode of Christian Authenticity: Exploring the Grammar of Authenticity through Ethnography of Contested Identity. Anthropos 108: 35-51.

Teaching

ANTH 3550

Memory and History, Summer 2024

ANTH 101G

Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Summer 2024

ANTH 3850

Ethnographic Methods WE, Spring 2024

ANTH 3480

Global Christianity, Spring 2024

ANTH 101G

Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2024

ANTH 101G

Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2024

Presentations

Dulin, John , European Association of Social Anthropologists, "Negative Value and Religious Otherness", Barcelona, Spain . (May, 2024)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Short Seminar_ Mind and Spirit Project, "Christianities Case Study_ Ghana", Society for Advanced Research , Santa Fe, New Mexico. (March 1, 2023)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Towards an Anthropology of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, "How Patterns of Orthodox Christian Practice shape inter-religious relations in Gondar", University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. (July 7, 2022)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Asilomar Mind and Spirit Workshop, "Porosity Scale", Stanford University, Asilomor, CA. (November 15, 2021)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Society for the Society for Psychology Anthropology Conference , "Lessons from a Mixed Methods Approach to the Anthropology of Mind", Society for Psychological Anthropology. , Virtual . (April 8, 2021)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), JRAI Special Issue Online Launch, Mind and Spirit_ A Comparative Theory, "Mind and Spirit in Ghana", Royal Anthropological Institute, London . (May 29, 2020)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Luhrmann, Tanya , Dulin, John , Dzokoto, Vivian , (2023) "The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited" . Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.

Dulin, John , "Are Pentecostals and Salafis the Same?: How Orthodox and Sufi Mediation Practices Shape Responses to Reformism in Gondar, Ethiopia. " . Journal of Northeast African Studies.

Coleman, Simon , Dulin, John , (2022) "Secrecy, Religion and the Ethics of Discernment" (Issue: 3, vol. 87). Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology .

Coleman, Simon , Dulin, John , (2022) "Secrecy, Religion, and the Ethics of Discernment" (Issue: 3, vol. 87). Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141844.2020.1765831

Dulin, John , (2022) "Virtual Reality as a Proxy for Participant Observation in Introduction to Socio cultural Anthropology." (Issue: 2, vol. 11). Teaching Anthropology . https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i2.636

Dulin, John , (2022) "‘My Fast is Better Than Your Fast’: Concealing Interreligious Evaluations and Discerning Respectful Others in Gondar, Ethiopia" (Issue: 3, vol. 87). Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141844.2020.1725093?journalCode=retn20

Awards

Higher Education Academy Fellowship

ANTH 101G

Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Fall 2018

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Conference of the American Anthropological Association , "The Performance of an Ethiopian Secular in Religious Spaces.", , American Anthropological Association , Vancouver, CA . (November 22, 2019)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Mind and Spirit Workshop, "Dimensions of Porosity ", , Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (May, 2019)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Society of the Anthropology of Religion Conference, "The Syncretic Hierarchies and Boundaried Symmetries of Muslim-Christian relations in Gondar, Ethiopia. ", , Toronto, CA. (April, 2019)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Escalations –Special Issue Workshop, "Value Density and Escalation", , University of Copenhagen, Helenekilde Badehotel, Denmark . (December 12, 2018)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Conference of the American Anthropological Association Conference, "Beyond Sufi and Salafi_ How Orthodox Christians Discern Islamic Extremism in Gondar, Ethiopia", , American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA. (November 17, 2018)

Dulin, John (Presenter & Author), Optimism at the End of the World Workshop, "Pentecostal Experiences of Pervasive Pessimism and Selective Optimism in Ghana", , Aalborg University, Denmark, Helenekilde Badehotel, DK. (August 22, 2018)

Dulin, John , (2021) "Value-Dense Indexes and the Escalation of a Muslim-Christian Conflict" (Issue: 1, vol. 32). History and Anthropology.

Weisman , Kara , Legare, Christine , Smith , Rachel , Dzokoto , Vivian , Aulino , Felicity , Ng, Emily , Dulin, John , Ross-Zehnder , Nicole , Brahinsky , Joshua , Luhrmann, Tanya , (2021) "Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures. " (vol. 5). Nature Human Behavior. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01184-8

Luhrmann , Tanya , Weisman, Kara , Dulin, John , Brahinsky , Joshua , Smith , Rachel , Ng, Emily , Legare , Christine , Aulino, Felicity , (2021) "Reply to Terhune and Jemieson_ The Nature of Absorption. " (Issue: 32, vol. 118). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2109120118

Dulin, John , Dzokoto, Vivian , "Like it's Already Done: Spiritual Experience, Hope and Optimism in Southern Ghana" . Anthropological Quarterly.

Dulin, John , (2021) "Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana" (Issue: 1, vol. 123). American Anthropologist . https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.13523

Luhrmann, Tanya , Weisman, Kara , Dulin*, John , Aulino, Felicity , Brahinsky, Joshua , Dzokoto, Vivian , Ross-Zehnder, Nicole , Legare, Cristine , Lifshitz, Michael , Ng, Emily , Smith, Rachel , (2021) "Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths" (Issue: 5, vol. 118). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2016649118

Dulin, John , (2020) "A Tale of Two Zionisms_ Messianic Judaism and Ethiopian Jewry" . The Christian Nation Project. https://thechristiannationproject.net/dulin/

Dulin, John , (2020) "Vulnerable Minds, Bodily-Thoughts, and Sensory Spirits_ Cultural Theory of Mind and Spiritual Experience in Ghana. " (Issue: S1, vol. 26). United Kingdom: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13241