IR US is for grad students and ECRs so that they can workshop a research project, practice presenting initial findings and more formally at conferences, integrate critical engagement and understand what it takes to revise and submit for publication. The best part: @drfstewart.bsky.social as a mentor

Denyce Graves and Elmo www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZFm...

CFP IR US: The call for papers for the Implicit Religion US Conference, "Challenging Narratives" is live. #IRUS CFP DEADLINE: 3rd April 2026 CFP: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic... CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

"Ahmed’s @saranahmed.bsky.social conceptualising of knowledge, or more accurately, knowingness indicates that @ its core are 2 aspects: agency and authority Whilst the subaltern often has the agency to speak, or be recognised, they lack or are denied the authority to be seen or heard (Spivak 1988)"

CFP IR UK: The call for papers for the 48th Implicit Religion Conference, "Knowingness, Agency and Authority" is live. #IR48 DEADLINE: 27th March 2026 www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic... CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

Minnesota remains under siege, operations have started up again in Maine and never stopped in Chicago or LA. Find on the ground groups to support (mutual aid, legal assistance, watch groups) and in as much as you are able to build up your capacity and your community's to sustain a general strike.

I would like to take a moment to remind my colleagues that it s not the job of book reviews editors to train your PhD students in academic niceties such as punctuation, sentence structure, or reading the damn instructions.

4 Black journalists have been charged w Civil Rights crimes while covering a protest at Easterbrook's Church I'm sure Bondi/Dhillon cackled at using the DOJ CR div this way Arguably it is an instance of Reestablishing Religion - Schragger @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & Tebbe 2025 UChicago Law Rev

and a mass violation First Amendment right to free religious expression and arguably in the context of a violation of the Establishment Clause [given the arrests and threatened prosecutions at the church of David Easterbrook (Pastor and ICE Agent)] this weekend

This is an excellent example of the moral and mortal dangers of white Christian nationalism

Religion in the U.S. Also, please note:

The new winter tourism campaign goes hard.

NOTE: EEOC = Equal Opportunity Employment Commission

As arguments begin in the transgender athletes cases, a few things to keep in mind:

I am not being flippant or disrespectful but in fact extremely complimentary when I say this is metal as fuck

How I'm walking out of 2025

This is part of an all out assault on data privacy and the regulation of tech, and it should fought by everyone who values democracy and human dignity.

It's Bari Weiss enshittifying CBS News and CBS's Public interest programming; to demonstrate the network is a platform for white supremacy and give white supremacists, Christian nationalists and racist atheist bros (academia & tech) a corroded veneer of credibility. Any other questions?

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS C iii 1, the Annals of Connacht. This unique manuscript records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland for over three hundred years from AD 1224 to AD 1544, with one later entry added (in different ink) for the year 1562.

Please note:

You know what to do For example: Come on Baby don't you wanna go? Ho, come on Baby don't you wanna go? Back to that same old place Sweet home Chicago 6 and 3 is 9 9 and 9 is 18 Look there brother baby and see what I've seen

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Replies hidden w/o consent, allow for bullying and swarming (w/ follower hacking) w/o any capacity to understand that it is happening. This "feature" allows the ugly behavior left on twitter to surface here w/ the "advantage" of the target unable to know that their posts are being hijacked by trolls

My virtual Halloween costume, "the Mad Social Scientist" is my annual homage to Professor Melvin Fenwick (and Gary Larson)

I've spent the last year working with an incredible group of people. Training them in how to undertake oral history interviews to gather local stories before they are gone. Together we've made a documentary being screened locally, for free, on 3rd Nov. www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/2557664...

Join us tomorrow for a discussion on religion, race, and doing public facing scholarship in these fascist times.

This 👇 💯

“Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies...we are called to defend and guarantee it” “Current events call for particular discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking”

Please note: 🧵

This is also a geographically transplanted, verbatim white Christian nationalist talking point, used in the U.S. for decades. See @candidamoss.bsky.social's work on the white Christian nationalist rhetorical strategy of self-identification as victims and martyrs

Also exceedingly rare for a court to cite Schragger, Schwartzman, and Tebbe, but lo and behold.

For more on this, read 1) @kevinmkruse.bsky.social One Nation Under God www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin... 2) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social Gospel According to the Klan kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/ White Collar Supremacy www.kellyjbaker.com/writing/whit...

Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, DC, & L.A. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...

Its particularly & grotesquely offensive that Brooks cites this white Christian Nationalist fascist of a sociologist of religion, to claim social scientists do not study culture.

Church doesn't belong in air quotes. Christian Missionary Colonialism committed variations on these acts openly & globally. The indictment said Taylor believed that "if an individual fails to obey his orders and commands, they are defying God and will suffer in Hell" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Nail on the fucking head.

Another heartbreaking story about a young person who confided in ChatGPT before committing suicide, sensitively reported by @kashhill.bsky.social. It has led to the first known case to be brought against OpenAI for wrongful death. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts. By @jwhendricks.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...

Reestablishing Religion was selected for this series because it is enormously to useful researchers, teachers or journalists covering religion in the US, white Christian Nationalism, religion & law, or religion & nationalist/authoritarian movements in other parts of the world. Join us.

Good morning to everyone in the UK who is either protesting the Couch fetishist, or refusing to cooperate with any of the invasive nonsense done in the name of accommodating his security.

**previously** a world class institution. I'm not the parent of a current or entering undergraduate student, but I'd be considering suing for fraud, with this bit of bait and switch.

Monday 18 Aug 2025 10:00-11:30 AM CST | -6 UTC "Reestablishing Religion" A Conversation w/ @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives prt 4 Article lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv... Register soraaad.org

It's HERE! It arrived! Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature by @vox-magica.bsky.social arrived today!

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

Join us in signing and sharing this petition to prevent layoffs of over 400 people (both academic & professional services staff) at Lancaster University. We are all at risk and it's a scary time.

According to the memo, "workers may engage in “attempting to persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views” as long as “such efforts are not harassing in nature”. This clears the way for Federal Government offices to serve as mission fields. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social ✨50th anniv issue✨ abt past, present, & future of 🇯🇵 religious studies is out! 🙏Paul Swanson, Hayashi Makoto, Kawahashi Noriko, Keller Kimbrough, Emi Foulk Bushelle, @orionklautau.bsky.social @jolyonbt.bsky.social @aikerots.bsky.social