User:Dr.Sosteric

Hi there, just a quick note to tell you who I am. I am Sociologist (what is Sociology? Glad you asked), professor at Athabasca University in Canada. My academic interests are in the Sociology of Religion and Spirituality, and the Sociology of the esoteric and the occult. I am currently writing an article entitled A Sociology of the Western Tarot in which I examine the history of the occult tarot, and situate it within a Sociological framework and analysis. I would like to work on the those Wikipedia entries that relate to my current (and future) research interests.

If you wish you can contact me directly at mikes@athabascau.ca


 * http://soci.athabascau.ca/faculty/msosteric/
 * http://www.sociology.org/ (an evolution from the Electronic Journal of Sociology) which I founded.
 * You can view some of the things I've done or am working on at http://mikes.sociology.org/my-work/ or
 * http://www.thespiritwiki.com/

Stuff recent stuff I've Written/Am Writing
Sosteric, Mike (2014). The Ideology of Tarot. In Progress.

Sosteric, Mike. (2014) A Sociology of Tarot. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 39(4). http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/20000

Sosteric, Mike. (2013) Through the looking glass: engaging students in the new communication age. In Fostering Conversations: About Teaching Sociology in Canada. Toronto: Nelson. 

Draft Pages
These are pages I'm currently working on. I work on these in semi-primacy and only update the main article periodically

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr.Sosteric/Divinatory_Tarot draft of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinatory,_esoteric_and_occult_tarot