Very engaging new article on religion & political knowledge On knowledge of both basic civics & current politics, atheists/agnostics’ advantage is strongest among liberals & Democrats and disappears among conservatives & Republicans From @profsamperry.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sf/article/d...

🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars. My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Very much looking forward to this next month. We have a great program put together for the conference! #SSSR_RRA2025

SSSR Members ➡️ Time to complete your registration for the #SSSR_RRA2025 Annual Meeting and reserve your hotel room. We look forward to welcoming all to Minneapolis October 31 - November 2, 2025. ✍️Registration sssreligion.org/annual-meeti... 🏨Hotel Info: sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...

New in Social Forces: @profsamperry.bsky.social new article Secularism, Sorting, and Americans’ Political Knowledge shows secular Americans score highest on civics & politics, especially liberals/Democrats. Evangelicals trend opposite with conservatism. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Our most recent webinar is now available on YouTube! In this webinar, Sarah Kathleen Johnson presented her new book, Occasional Religious Practice: Valuing a Very Ordinary Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 2025). Watch here: youtu.be/9bB7vl135Dc?...

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Religious Influencers Online: Why They Attract Young People | Psychology Today South Africa www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/youn...

New article by Alisher Khamidov and @davidbnolle.bsky.social in Central Asian Survey: Muslim religiosity among Kyrgyz linked to greater acceptance of Uzbeks, even amid historic conflict. Religion may support interethnic tolerance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read the latest article from NCF team members Ryan Cragun, Hugo Rabbia, Sivert Skålvoll Urstad, and Peter Beyer. In this article, the authors draw on research from the NCF's Social and Cultural Values Survey to re-think how to best measure nonreligion. secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10....

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Special Issue on Religion and Health (Pippa Koch, Guest Editor) Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to [email protected] by December 1, 2025. www.american-religion.org/announcements

Congratulations to SSSR member Jocelyne Cesari, named as one of the winners of the Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award given by the American Political Science Association, Religion and Politics Section. @apsareligion.bsky.social #Religion #Research connect.apsanet.org/s11/2025-rel...

⛪ Unaffiliated, but not undevoted @matthewblanton.bsky.social's new #Socius study challenges common understandings of #secularization, analyzing trends of increased personal religiosity alongside decreased institutional religiosity from 2004-2023 in #LatinAmerica. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Call for nominations: 2027 Senior Scholar at Rice Univ.’s Boniuk Institute (@boniukinstitute.bsky.social) For scholars advancing religious pluralism, tolerance & civic engagement. Deadline Oct 20, 2025. Details: boniuk.rice.edu/call-nominia... @sssreligion.bsky.social

Join our new @asareligion.bsky.social community! Thank you to @andrewmackey.com for setting it up! And please share your new publications and other opportunities through this handle.

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic." Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that. In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage. kettering.org/five-element... @kettering.org

Bryn Mawr College is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology with a specialization in social movements! The applications are due on September 19th. It is a fantastic place to be a scholar and educator—please spread the word! I'm happy to answer questions to the best of my ability!

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Religiosity & gender attitudes go hand-in-hand. But which influences which? New study by McElroy et al. shows earlier gender views tend to predict religious trajectories more than the reverse (except for young women). Once again: Cultural/political conflicts --> Religion doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Just in case you've otherwise missed this info: If your work explores faith-based institutions, or religion and social issues in North America, the Louisville Institute’s Grant for Researchers is for you. Deadline September 15! portal.louisville-institute.org/grants?utm_s...

Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/6cTpB24

Findings suggest that support for teacher-led Christian prayer in schools is tied to favoring solutions like arming "good guys" (teachers, admin) & restricting access only at school (e.g. metal detectors), not broader gun control. @jssreligion.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us for 'Leaving Orthodoxy,' Sept. 18, 12-1:30 PM ET. Co-hosted with the ASSJ, webinar speakers include Moshe Krakowski (Yeshiva University), Bethany Gull (Utah Tech University) & Cory Anderson (Penn State University). ➡️Register by Sept 17 via email to: [email protected] to receive link

Job offers 📣The Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts @ucalgary.bsky.social invites applications for four tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Anticipated start date: July 1, 2026. Apply by October 15, 2025. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

New from @pewresearch.org Most Americans Don’t Believe God Played a Role in Recent Presidential Election Outcomes pewrsr.ch/4pgj6BT

The preliminary program for the #SSSR_RRA2025 Annual Meeting happening October 31-November 2, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is now available. Explore the wide spectrum of topics around this year's theme: Religion Matters. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ #Religion #SocialScience www.sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...

Join us for 'Leaving Orthodoxy,' Sept. 18, 12-1:30 PM ET. Co-hosted with the ASSJ, webinar speakers include Moshe Krakowski (Yeshiva University), Bethany Gull (Utah Tech University) & Cory Anderson (Penn State University). ➡️Register by Sept 17 via email to: [email protected] to receive link

Looks like @christianitytoday.com just handed out a Masters Thesis idea. FWIW, the 2016, 2018, and 2022 GSS has an item in which the interviewer rated the attractiveness of respondents. N > 6,000. Someone call dibs. @sssreligion.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/jesu...

New study using Baylor Religion Survey data finds nuanced links between Internet use and religiosity. Research by Laderi & Uecker suggests online gaming associated with holding atheist/agnostic beliefs; posting original content = more church attendance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

NEW podcast episode: "Black Catholics & Racism in the U.S. Catholic Church" What is the history of Black Catholics, and what are the most pressing issues facing Black Catholics today? @tiaphd.bsky.social, author of Black and Catholic, joins us. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

The 2025 Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference in Bratislava takes place 8-10 September. All panels will be available to listen to virtually through Teams. See the link for more info. thensrn.org/2025-nonreli...

iRCSF @ircsf.bsky.social talk. Sept. 24 @ 2:30pm EDT with Mervyn Horgan on current uses of Durkheim's concept of the sacred in sociology. Register for the free hybrid event here: t.co/tWEgIN8Bt9.

Excited and honored to be among these wonderful people and working with an organization like @prri.org. Onward, together!

Thrilled to be at beautiful Clemson next week sharing evidence for some needed shifts in our understanding of religion today. If you’re in the Greenville or Clemson area, I hope you can join us!

New from me in @jssreligion.bsky.social: Evangelicals justify economic inequality more than the overall population. So what are preachers saying about Bible passages that might cut against inequality? They just insist those passages don't really say inequality is bad. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

Catching up on peer reviews today. If you don't like my comments, blame Reviewer 2.5.

I yearn for when this sort of research is unnecessary. Sending "thoughts and prayers" and wanting to "return prayer to schools" is associated with *wanting more guns in schools* and opposing structural or policy-based decisions, like banning certain weapons. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Register now for our upcoming Meet the Author webinar featuring Sarah Kathleen Johnson. In this webinar, Dr. Johnson will discuss her recent book, Occasional Religious Practice: Valuing a Very Ordinary Religious Experience (2025). September 17 12pm ET Register: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

➡️ "This understanding of karma is more urgently needed today than ever, as powerful institutions increasingly fail to fulfill their responsibilities to protect and support people." - Jin Y. Park, Chair of the Department of Philosophy & Religion at American University tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/20/k...

Upcoming program on cross-cultural Christian nationalism, looking at Brazil and the US. Register for the live-stream at link below, or register to join us on IUI's campus. Thursday, September 18, from 3–4 p.m. ET raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel... @csraac.bsky.social

The Nonreligion in a Complex Future project is hosting a fall webinar series, starting on Sept 17 with the new book event 'Occasional Religious Practice: Valuing a Very Ordinary Religious Experience' (OUP, 2025), with author Sarah Kathleen Johnson. nonreligionproject.ca/upcoming-eve...

Applications are now open for Buddhism Public Scholars and New Professorships in Buddhist Studies, part of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies! Applications for both competitions must be submitted by January 27, 2026, 9:00 PM EST. bit.ly/45DSy5W

New from me & @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social at @jssreligion.bsky.social. We find parents who want teachers to lead kids in Christian prayers are more likely to endorse solutions to school shootings that involve MORE guns in school (armed teachers & security). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Senior faculty search in Modern American Christianity at Macalester College in lovely St. Paul, MN. It's a religious studies job, but they're open to other disciplines with congruent methodological approaches (history, anthro, sociology). Feel free to share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30302

In this quick video, @josiahtaru.bsky.social discusses his newest article which finds that people creatively blend scientific imagination with spiritual meaning when contemplating life's end. 👉 Watch it below! Read the full article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Writing this paper has felt like spending the year doing a seminar with some of the most inspiring and theoretically savvy scholars of spirituality and religion —and friends. Our conclusion? Religion has been unbundled. Read more below:

'Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you' - Ford Madox Ford Marshal Zeringue asked us to put Growing Up Godless to the Page 99 test @princetonupress.bsky.social page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/anna...