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publications, media appearances & press
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What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual?
What does it mean to be spiritual? a lecture given at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte for the Multicultural Resource Center Spiritual and Religiou Life, March 22, 2010.
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How Your Graduate Education Can Change the World
How Your Graduate Education Can Change the World, a presentation given at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte for the Graduate School on March 22, 2010.
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Compassion Fatigue among Animal Welfare Workers
Rachel Mann appeared as a call-in guest on “A Close-Up Look at Animal Welfare Issues” hosted by Tina Evangelista-Eppenstein on BCTV to discuss the problem of compassion fatigue among animal welfare workers, February 24, 2010.
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The Reluctant Shaman
Your Life is a Trip, January, 2010. I tell the story of how I became a shamanic healer quite reluctantly and yet inexorably.
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Should Non-Natives Practice Indigenous Religions?
Spirituality & Health, November/December, 2008. In this personal reflection, I discuss the ethical complexities of being a white woman of European ancestry who is a student of indigenous spirituality. Click here for the article on line.
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A Shrine of Healing: Cherokee Practices and Spiritual Integration
Published in Wildfire: A Journal of Native American Culture, Fall, 1996.
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Story and Healing in Action: New Methods for Fostering Heart-to-Heart Dialogue about Race
Co-authored with John Alexander, Multicultural Education, Volume 11, No. 2 (Winter, 2003): 49-54. For a pdf of the article, click: Story and Healing in Action
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University of Virginia Media Coverage for “Story and Healing”: An Innovative Course on Racism, Trauma and Healing
An innovative undergraduate course (note that the web site no longer is available except the home page) developed from 1996-2006 by Rachel Mann and John Alexander at the University of Virginia dealing with racism through the lens of trauma, story and healing was featured in UVA’s Top News on May 3, 2004.
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The Phenomenology of Violence and Imaginal Portal to Healing: Combining Academic and Indigenous Perspectives to Promote Community Healing from Violence and Oppression
Co-authored with Roberta Culbertson, Director, Institute on Violence and Survival, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Conference Proceedings for Continuity and Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion, sponsored by the Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia, PA, June 8-11, 2006. For a PDF file of the article, click: Metanexus PDF on The Phenomenology of Violence and Peace
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A Day in the Life of Thomas Baggett: Peacemaking, Technology & the Making of International Intellectual Community
Published in Change, Jan/Feb, 2001.
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Seminar on Shamanism and Violence: Academic and Practice Perspectives
A report on the seminar held on March, 2006 and sponsored by the Center on Violence and Community at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities bringing together scholars, healers, teachers, and others to discuss how shamanic perspectives can help us understand and ameliorate violence. For a copy of the report, click here: Seminar on Shamanism and Violence: Academic and Practice Perspectives (2006)
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The Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Translations
Published in IRIS: A Journal About Women, Spring, 1986.