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 PUBLICATIONS 

Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.


(1992) "Postcards from the Edge of the Colorline: Images of African Americans in Popular Culture, 1893-1917." Symbolic interaction 

(1992) "Talk-as-Work: The Case of Paramedic Calls for Emergency Field Orders" in Current Research in Occupations and Professions Vol. 7 ) 

(1992) "Accomplishing Fact in Police "Dispatch Packages": An Analysis of the Situated Construction of an Organizational Record." Perspectives on Social Problems Vol. 4 ) 

(1992) "Representing Blackness in the White Imagination: Images of "Happy Darkies" in Popular Culture, 1893-1917. Visual sociology 

(1994) "Toward a Critical Analysis of Tourism Representations" Annals of Tourism Research 

(1994) "Negotiated Orders: The Negotiation of Directives in Paramedic-Nurse Interactions." Symbolic interaction 

(1995) "The Anatomy of an Obituary: 'Rock Hudson Dies at 59 After Fighting AIDS'" Perspectives on Social Problems Vol. 7 

(1995) "Talk, Power and Professionals: Partial Repeats as 'Challenges' in the Psychiatric Interview" in Therapeutic and Everyday Discourse as Behavior Change: Toward a Microanalysis in Psychotherapy Process Research 

(1997) "John Henry Adams and the Image of the New Negro" The International review of African American art 

(1997) "Newz from the Hood: The Stephanie Kuhen Murder in the Los Angeles Times" Human Systems 

(1997) "White Fantasies, Black Bodies: Racial Power, Disgust and Desire in Popular Media Culture, 1893-1917 Visual anthropology 

(1997) "Reading the News in the Age of Postmodern Mass Media: Gang Murders in the Los Angeles Times" Cultural Studies: A Research Annual ) 

(1998) "Textual Guerrillas in the Corporate Mists: Visual Representations of Workplace Resistance. Or, Managers Beware. An Angry Army of Semioticians is Subverting Your Organization (Conference Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association )


John Scheibe., April 26, 2006 Ventura County Star. "Addiction Teaches Lesson". http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n526/a11.html?360


Bethany Hopkins. February 27, 2007. "Meth Lessons". Santa Barbara News-Press http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n312/a09.html


2015a ”Steps Toward A Dionysian Naturalism”. Humanistic Paganism 

2015b “Our Universe is a Sacred Living System”. Humanistic Paganism 

2015c “Enchanting Naturalism”. Humanistic Paganism 

2016a “Dancing With Dionysus: Ecstasy and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene”. Humanistic Paganism A briefer version also appears in John Halstead (Ed.) Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic.Pagans. 

2016b. “Nature Religions and Revolutionary Social Change: Advancing a Practical Theology of Spiritual Activism”. Humanistic PaganisM (A version also appears in the blog Gods&Radicals: A Site of Beautiful Resistance. 

2018 “Bearing Witness to Social Injustice as a Spiritual Practice.” Humanistic Paganism 

2020. "Tripping with the Gods: On Entheogenic Spirituality" Humanistic Paganism


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