American Religion
Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.
@mccraryc.bsky.social
I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. Assistant prof of religious studies at Eckerd College. https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
@matthedstrom.bsky.social
Historian of US religion, politics, culture, SBNR at UVA. Writing a book about religion, the UN, and “one world” in Cold War America. Author of The Rise of Liberal Religion. Will also post about baseball and tennis whether you like it or not.
@ronitstahl.bsky.social
Historian @ UCBerkeley | Author: Enlisting Faith http://tinyurl.com/yyh2p4tq | current project: religious hospitals & conscience rights | sometimes quilts, sometimes climbs | posts my own | she/her
@kginlum.bsky.social
Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
@rachelbgross.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
@maffkipp.bsky.social
Here to talk about all the officially prohibited things: religion, politics, race.
@kecarte.bsky.social
Early Americanist, mom, runner, fiction buff, yarn arts for meditation, but not with much skill.
@pharvey61.bsky.social
History, religion, books, basketball, coffee, yerba mate, wine, music, cats, academia, ongoing bonfire of the humanities. https://paulharvey.org
@mariegriffith.bsky.social
US religious history, gender & sexuality studies, religion & politics. Professor at WashU in St. Louis. Writing a book on clergy sexual abuse across American Christianity. https://rap.wustl.edu/people/r-marie-griffith/
@burnidge.bsky.social
Historian of religion and politics in the US. Researching “progressive” political and religious movements and teaching undergraduates about religious diversity in the US and what they can do with their Religious Studies majors.
@monicalmercado.bsky.social
so-called lady scholar and scholar of ladies | usually writing or thinking about Catholic girlhoods, female rage, feminist interventions in the museum, and convent road trips 🚗📚👩🏻💻🎀 | @colgate.edu prof | she/her
@heatherdcurtis.bsky.social
Historian of American Religion. Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities @ Tufts.
@chipcallahan.bsky.social
Religious Studies prof. Folklorist. Author, Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust. Co-Editor, The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture. Currently: religious history of oceanic resource extraction (whaling)
@ktgerbs.bsky.social
Historian of religion & race, archives, media/tech/comm, politics of education. Always asking: whose stories are told & who gets to tell them? History Prof & Dir. of Religious Studies @ U of Minnesota. Au: Christian Slavery (2018). www.katharinegerbner.com
@gerardomarti.bsky.social
William R Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Editor Soc of Rel Journal, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Rel & AAR Rel and Soc Sci Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D | Schuller Bio 2025📚
@cdc29.bsky.social
Religious History | Public History | Digital History Assistant Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
@tisawenger.bsky.social
Historian of American religion, religious freedom, US Empire. New book in 2025: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion. Gardener, permaculturalist, & fermentation nerd.
@drleahpayne.bsky.social
Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM @OUPReligion | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
@alana-m-vincent.net
Historian of Religion. Migrant (currently based in Finland). Bad at gender, worse at writing bios, absolutely incapable of refraining from profanity. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once.
@brookwl.bsky.social
Author GOD & COUNTRY and PARADISE LUST, religion writing teacher and editor, eternal student, Chapel Hill cat lady
@profdognerd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion in NC. Academic interests: animal studies, religion in the U.S., gender/sexuality studies, Jewish studies, and all things teaching. Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
@ahmadgreene.com
🏫 professor, writer, lover | ✨ all things black, queer, archival, artsy |📚 author of *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans* http://a.co/d/4VuHlQZ ✨views are my own.
@emily-ogden.bsky.social
Essayist and English professor. Books: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (Peninsula Press / U of Chicago Press); Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (U of Chicago Press)
@judithweisenfeld.com
Scholar of African American religious history and religion and race in America Director: @xroadproj.bsky.social Website: https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/ Most recent book: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025)
@wheatleyjt.bsky.social
Teach & research religion in US history & culture. Secular governance, conflict, fanaticism. Also cephalopods. NBA and Suns fan. #religiousstudies #history #iowastate www.jeffreywheatley.com
@jolyonbt.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Faking Liberties (2019), Drawing on Tradition (2012); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025). Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17249. Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
@maiakotro.bsky.social
https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago, 2020); Theory, History, and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2023).
@danielvaca.bsky.social
assoc. prof. @ Brown University | author of *Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America* (Harvard, 2019) | writing about religion + inequity + taxes + visions of the common good | danielvaca.com
@apetro.bsky.social
Historian. Author: *Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars* (due out April 2025) and *After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion* (2015)
@mcharriss.bsky.social
Prof of religion and literature, coeditor of American Religion, et al.