Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, author of “Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives” and “Rituals and Practices in World Religions: Cross-Cultural Scholarship to Inform Research and Clinical Contexts”
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