"Journal of Religon and Popular Culture" eds @davidfeltmate.bsky.social & @drfstewart.bsky.social have curated a list of articles from JRPC which we are pleased to make free to read during the upcoming @implicitreligion.bsky.social conferences. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/j...

@davidfeltmate.bsky.social will be delivering a workshop on journal publication at the Implicit Religion US conference. David is editor-in-chief of online.ucpress.edu/jrpc About Implicit Religion US www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic... Programme cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

In his Davos speech, Mark Carney called the rules-based order rigged. But what about the economic system that keeps it running? me in @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/the-carney-d...

Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...

Mellon postdoc in REL wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/welles...

I'm always surprised by this chapter, but it goes really well with the recent editorial I wrote for the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. I've been thinking a lot lately about the field and how we develop it. link.growkudos.com/1dwrwi1mlmo

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Art history books IN Russian and Polish and Bulgarian. If you have an institution or library or university that wants that, that's AMAZING, would love to talk, but that's the big hurdle from here in northeast Missouri.

This whole thread is worthwhile.

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area. Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15! Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

There are two ways to get your pierogi at Veselka

60% off selected @nyupress.bsky.social books. Here's the list of Religion books on sale: nyupress.org/sale25-relig...

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

"Reestablishing Religion" a Conversation with @richschragger.bsky.social , @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social , will take place Monday, 18 August from 10-11:30 am CST (-6 UTC) online. Registration will Open July 8.

TIL there's a shrine in Kyoto dedicated to medicine deities that, besides the usual #kami suspects (Onamuchi no mikoto & Sukunabikona), enshrines the Chinese deity Shennong (not so strange) AND Hippocrates (v cool)! #globalshinto Photo credit: Fred Cherrygarden www.atlasobscura.com/places/yakus...

Don’t know if folks saw these CFPs from a new religion and pop culture series @davidfeltmate.bsky.social is editing, but check them out!

Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the first CFPs in the Blackwell Series in Religion and Popular Culture. Please circulate widely and apply if they fit your interests. I am also happy to answer general questions about the series. #religion #religiousstudies #MCU #Disney #popculture

Abstract: @drangelasutton.bsky.social will address the challenges of establishing clear causal links btwn a specific event/phenomenon& its extensive effects(&)the most common methodological obstacles early career scholars face when applying this framework (&) offer up an interdisciplinary toolkit

UC Press is delighted to be the new publisher for the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture," which is edited by @davidfeltmate.bsky.social, who is the subject of a new Q&A on our blog. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars: Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency. Deadline: July 1, 2025

Sing it

#OnlineFirst My article “Moros y Cristianos Together?: The Politics of Death and Muslims in Spain” is already available at @EthnicitiesSAGE. #NewPublication journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

EVENT: SORAAAD Book Club Composing Violence by Moyukh Chatterjee Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives - Part 3 Sunday 13 April 2025 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM CST @themodsisyphus.bsky.social & @ichatterjea.bsky.social will lead this discussion. Register: soraaad.org

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions. Nope. Christian friends. 1/x 🧵 This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

Chrissy has been leading the charge for Exvangelicals and is the voice I prefer to listen to and magnify.

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

I just got laid off from @vox.com along with 11 other talented and delightful people. I'm leaving with a deep bench of sources and a million ideas. Editors assigning work on public health, health misinfo, corporate ints/religion in healthcare, please reach out! Gonna go have cookies for lunch now

CFP IR US: The Call for Papers for 2025 Implicit Religion Conference, "Extensive Effects" is now posted. @drangelasutton.bsky.social will deliver the Keynote Lecture. CFP DEADLINE 17 March 2025. CFP: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic... CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

#IR47's theme is taken from “Hidden Histories: Faith & Black Lesbian Leadership” Moultrie...argues including & fronting, sexual identity is essential to understanding the leadership styles & experiences of those who live at the intersections of race, class & gender oppression & sexual invisibility

* Join us for SORAAAD's 1st Open House of 2025 and Social Media Mini Workshop: "Minimum Valuable Presence." * Meet Monique Moultrie, @drangelasutton.bsky.social 2025 @implicitreligion.bsky.social keynotes * The Big Reveal: the SORAAAD Book Club Title for April 13! Register at SORAAAD.org

Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.

Academic Christmas

Last year, Mariah got a parking garage she didn't want. This year, she was making it clear - she didn't want a lot for Christmas.

Save the Date EVENT: Open House 12 Jan 2025 11-12:30 CST Online 1) Conversation 2) Study of Rel & Social Media Mini Workshop 3) SORAAAD Bk Club for April Title 4) Meet the IR UK & US Keynotes 5) Can I H@z PDF 6) More Conversation An official *snazzy* graphic & link to register will appear before NYE

Wise words, pronouns not withstanding, from Peter Medawar's Advice to a Young Scientist (1979).... especially the bit about looking back at our own research beginnings and thinking how the hell we ever survived just crashing around

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

I’m co-organising two panels on #HumourAndReligion with Dr Lina Liederman at ISHS 2025: Humour as a response to tragedy & suffering and Humour and Religion: Past, Present & Future. Deadline: 14 February 2025. More info here: ishs2025.pl/submissions/

CFP IR UK: The Call for Papers for 47th Implicit Religion Conference, "Negotiating, Religion, Race and Sexuality" is now posted. DEADLINE 10 March 2025. Professor Monique Moultrie will deliver the Edward Bailey Keynote Lecture. www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-uk/implic...

End of semester service commitments are the energy vampires of the week. And it's only Monday.

Could anybody point me to some research on a particular style of shoe - associated with Islamic cultures - with a curved toe? I'm looking for the name of the shoe, and any 15th/16th century history of its use (in Eastern Med & Europe). Thanks! #medievalsky #dresshistory #🗃️

It feels quite unreal, but *The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game* is officially out in the world as of today. Half a decade’s work finally on full display. Please grab a copy, request at your library, and spread the word. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

This! What's the training data? If it's fake, then how "good" are the confessions (from a strictly performative view, set theology aside for a moment). If it's real: where did it come from and what consent was involved and how do you prevent the system from leaking it?

"Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women." Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/

Phd opportunity in African archaeology coastal Mozambique (historical, material analysis). 3 years funding + poss 6-12 months more. Visa & NHS surcharge covered McDonald Institute Cambridge International Entangled PhD Scholarship at University of Cambridge www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR174/m...

Through the end of November, free access to Nova Religio's newest issue on the New Apostolic Reformation, dominion theology, Donald Trump, and the January 6 insurrection. www.pennpress.org/blog/dominio.... muse.jhu.edu/issue/53568

That said, I design things/stuff and services. I am a mentor to those pivoting into Web/Experience/Product design and those new to it with fellow UX/Product designers based out of Chicago. We're launching www.rendezvoux.com in early 2025. We will launch the corresponding bsky channel at that time