Randy P. Conner

Randy P. Conner, PhD (Humanities: Philosophy & Religion), Passed through the veil on May 5, 2022. He was a writer and educator. He has published three books: Blossom of Bone; the Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit; and Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions (the previous two co-written with David Hatfield Sparks); as well as numerous articles in Parabola and elsewhere. His work also appears in Gloria Anzaldua's and AnaLouise Keating's This Bridge We Call Home; Patrick Bellegarde-Smith's Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World; David M. Machacek and Melissa M. Wilcox's Sexuality and the World's Religions; and other works. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin Community College, the University of California at Berkeley, and CIIS. He is completed The Pagan Heart of the West: Devastation, Persistence, and Innovation in the Face of Christianization. Among his chief interests were the intersection of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and the mythic or sacred.