Hello, and welcome.

This site, religionandtechnology.com aka “re: religion and technology,” is the research blog of Michael Paul Oman-Reagan. That four part name refers to me, the human typing, and contains the names of my father, and my mother’s father (hello kinship!). “I” am the author and the voice here is mine, mostly, but it’s also partly yours since you’re reading.  Keep that in mind and you’ll spare us both lots of confusion.

As the tagline for the site (borrowed from the inimitable Donna Haraway) suggests, this blog is at the crossroads of several research areas. I use this space to investigate the interactions of alternative religions, anthropology of religion, art, astroanthropology, cognitive freedom, consciousness studies, cybercultures, emergent religions, entheogens, exoanthropology, history of religious studies, imaginative universes, moral status of animals, new religious movements, psychedelic culture, science and technology studies, science fiction, social justice, and technology.

I’m currently doing graduate work in the Anthropology Department at Hunter College, as well as studies with the Program in Religion. Hunter College is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) which is a vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big academic universe(ity) system hosting about 250,000 students. I am also a senior technology specialist at the Graduate Center (the doctoral degree granting institution for CUNY), where I work with Apple-flavored-Unix computer systems and academic cyberinfrastructure. I started my undergraduate career in biology and then moved to philosophy, international studies, art theory, religion and anthropology. I wasn’t interested in smashing bees for DNA studies then, and I am still concerned with the moral status of non-human animals and non-human life generally. I’m also interested in contemporary art and have been producing and exhibiting artworks and projects since the mid 1990s.

I’m a member of the following academic societies: American Academy of Religion,  Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, The Society for the Anthropology of Religion, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the American Anthropological Association and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

Please note: Some links will resolve to search results. This is intentional, I hope this method will prevent links from expiring as the net changes and grows.

You can contact me by deciphering and then sending an email to: moman(the symbol one doesn’t type for fear of spam)hunter.cuny.edu

-MOR