Belfast-based scholar & curator. Researching religion and ritual in museums and exhibiting sacred objects in Western museums and heritage sites. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries. Distracted by the casualised job market.
Author, Cowboy Apocalypse (2025) & Godwired (2012). Prof of Religious Studies @ Ithaca College, mom & caregiver, disgruntled idealist, loud introvert. Religion, gaming, politics, media, film.
thoughtsandprayers.earth
https://tinyurl.com/CowboyApocalypse
Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
Elizabethshakmanhurd.com
religion & film/gender/migration. pubs on stranger things/lady bird/fight club. bylines: @japantimes@kyotojournal@civilbeat
@religiondispatches@deepkyoto
https://buymeacoffee.com/jbartashius
PhD candidate / conscious dance, contemporary spirituality, relational being / sociology / graduate research teaching fellow Deakin Uni
unceded Wurundjeri lands
Naarm Melbourne Australia
Award-winning online magazine about religion, society, and media published by NYU's Center for Religion & Media. https://therevealer.org/
Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
Historian of religion. Author of 9 books, including Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford); and Religion in the Lands That Became America (Yale). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300221480/religion-in-the-lands-that-became-ame
Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
RELCFP is a religious studies call for papers repository (relcfp.com)
Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion | Platform for academic research and training
author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Assistant Professor Philosophy and Religion at University of Humanistic Studies
Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network
(posts by @roie and @samanthahauw.bsky.social)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
Currently taking a break from social media.
I curate, write, research and teach. About art, religion, heritage - and everything in between. Currently at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam; and the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society at Groningen University.
Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies at Utrecht University | Member of De Jonge Akademie | PI NWO VIDI “Iran’s Secular Shift” (2025-2030)
Professor of Religion, Middle Tennessee State University | PhD, University of Toronto | Author of The New Heretics (NYUP, 2023) | You can ask about my research, but I’d rather talk about the amazing students I get to spend time with | (she/her) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
PhD Candidate & Sessional Lecturer in Religious Studies @ Uni Hannover・Managing Editor @projectrs.bsky.social・Contributor & Online Curator @idendefying
・ https://andiealexander.org/
Marie Curie fellow with project MERGE - on digital religion, social movements, and gender - at University of Bologna 🇮🇹 and University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇲. She/her.
Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
Sociologist at the University of York | religion, ethics, values, culture, cities, childhood | neurodivergent | she/her | new book 'Growing Up Godless' https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691247250/growing-up-godless
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.
West coast soul in Philly. Theory prof teaching/writing about emotion, secularism, & power.
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration.
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
(specifics @ profirmf.com)
Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion. Researching public discourses on religion; atheism and nonreligion; religion and news media; methodology. Author of Taking "Religion" Seriously (2022) and other books.
https://teemutaira.wordpress.com
Associate Professor of Religion and Society, University of Leeds. Research on religion in Britain, especially Buddhism and Spiritualism🪷 Director of Liberal Arts at Leeds ❤️ Loves ghosts and Luton Town Football Club.
Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University / writing about religion, ethics, ecology / asking you to #JoinYourUnion / book: Thoreau's Religion, http://bit.ly/3Jtbkyg
International social science research project exploring the rise of nonreligion. Based at the University of Ottawa. Directed by Lori G. Beaman. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
https://nonreligionproject.ca/
Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
Researching death, technology and religion. Future food for worms.
Podcasts and commentary on the social-scientific and critical study of religion, in association with the BASR and NAASR
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/ProjectRS
The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
www.implicitreligion.co.uk
The official site for Implicit Religion, encompassing the Edward Bailey Research Centre, the Implicit Religion UK Conference, and the Implicit Religion US workshop and conference.
A program of the Social Science Research Council, R&PS fosters research, discussion, and engagement around religion, secularism, spirituality, and belief. Publisher of online publications Intersections and @immanentframe.bsky.social.
Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross
Assistant Professor researching religious politics, (de)globalisation, infrastructure, urban life, Islam, Dar es Salaam, immersion, ethnography.
https://www.religion.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/benjamin-kirby/index.php
she/her feminist author
Books: The seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
(And others)
Newsletter https://www.feministgiant.com/
Sociology of religion, spirituality, nature-connection, disinformation, diverse worldviews, Buddhism in Australia, and Dzogchen
Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller. Will not take your ish.
Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
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Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Next up: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
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