Rice University in Houston Texas — a small private research university known for its science and engineering programs but also housing Jeff Kripal's J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought — the institutional home of Kripal's work on mysticism and parapsychology.
Represents the rare instance of a mainstream academic institution housing serious scholarship on parapsychology and anomalous experience — Kripal's endowed chair at Rice legitimizes the study of mysticism and the paranormal within the American research university system.
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