Pod Only Knows
A podcast about religion from two nonreligious religion scholars who care about religion. With @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social
(Alternately known as Scholars and Swear Words)
BLOG: https://bit.ly/3OhMw14
POD: https://bit.ly/3WnQvxT
@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.
@kristadalton.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Kenyon College. Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025). Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com.
@themodsisyphus.bsky.social
Settler. Religion, media, & culture scholar. Writing on digital hate & extremism, ritual, & Hindu/tva publics. Animal lover, anti-caste, anti-racist, anti-hate, anti-fascist. No response to trolls. RP ⍯ Endorsement; BLM, FREE PALESTINE all posts personal
@ichatterjea.bsky.social
#ProductStrategy #UX #ServiceDesign @rendezvoux.bsky.social @soraaad.bsky.social "Teaching the Study of Religion w/o a Church: SORAAAD as Punk Pedagogy" https://search.worldcat.org/title/1368270665 🏴☠️ TDPR's Navigator 🏴☠️
@shengokai.bsky.social
Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, and translator. Views do not represent those of my employer. Most recent book: www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919108/late-star-trek/ Star Trek Substack: akotsko.substack.com Academic blog: itself.blog Professional site: adamkotsko.com
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@chancebonar.bsky.social
Researching early Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, violence, and more Cat dad | 🏳️🌈 http://chancebonar.com Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
@homophonous.bsky.social
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
@nabalkattu.bsky.social
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University. "A laid-back country picker with a laid-back country mind" Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, and Liberation Philology. Nova Scotia and California.
@ctschroeder.bsky.social
Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
@evandeneykel.bsky.social
Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies @ Ferrum College, General Editor, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Running, beer, sarcasm. Black Lives Matter. he/him
@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social
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/
@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought. book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76 new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god. אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
@drmjcwarren.bsky.social
Dr MJC Warren. Director of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies & Editor in Chief of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. PhD, Early Judaism & New Testament. Settler & Manitoba Metis Federation citizen. She/her/wiya
@drnelk.bsky.social
All fire, no chill. Husband/Father. I philosoPHizeD about Ethics @ UVA, and ever true to Brown. I teach text and thought to HS students in NYC.
@isaactsoon.bsky.social
assistant prof. of early Christianity. disability studies. ancient judaism. songwriter. don’t bore us, get to the chorus. here to connect people to scholarship. he/him. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
@markleuchter.bsky.social
Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at Temple University in Philadelphia. I also make guitar effects. Just trying to get by and be okay with what I see in the mirror every day.
@akma.bsky.social
AKMA is a priest, lecturer (New Test., Greek, Early Church, Crit Theory), writer, gamer; Glasgow, Oxford, now parish ministry in Abingdon-on-Thames. Will not try [in vain?] to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever. http://akma.disseminary.org
@shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at Augsburg University. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
@drjaimeashworth.bsky.social
Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him www.framingthequestion.blog
@meirazk.bsky.social
Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
@cjosephus.bsky.social
historian of (late) ancient Mediterranean religion + medicine | PhD dropout | #FirstGen | #Neurodivergent | #SOTL + pedagogy nerd | horror aficionado | Whovian | washed-up lacrosse player 🥍 | 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇮🇹 (Rome)
@rvontha.bsky.social
Denizen of the North Coast who cogitates about cognition, sacred texts, and other sundries. Should be writing about Galatians. (Views are my own)
@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
@adeler.bsky.social
I work on New Testament, in relation to Judaism, with sidelines in film studies and Holocaust memoirs.
@simranjeetsingh.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Interreligious Histories at Union Seminary; Author of the national bestseller, The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life
@beamarovich.bsky.social
I’m a professor in religious studies, theology & the environmental humanities. I write about death, the underworld, and the things that take root there. website: www.beatricemarovich.com substack: https://beatricemarovich.substack.com
@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social
Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Author of two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions mine. 13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, next up 26.
@jaxhidalgo.bsky.social
Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
@rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social
I research, write, and teach about the Quaker tradition. I also write fiction (mainly sapphic romance novels set in prehistory) and poetry. She/her.
@siobhanjolley.bsky.social
Writer, educator, and Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion, visiting@kingtrs | Let's talk arts, feminism, and Bible
@jlgittinger.bsky.social
PhD Religious Studies. South Asia, scifi, human rights, disability, nationalism. She/her. I talk about Star Trek too much but oh well. Alt account for Skylight: @juli-drg
@duderonomy.bsky.social
Associate professor and occasional archaeologist | scholar of ancient Western Asia specializing in Hebrew Bible | epigrapher | He/him
@timothyharvie.bsky.social
Professor, Philosophy and Religion, St Mary’s University, Calgary. Eco-Religious Studies and Philosophy Scholar. Opinions are my own. Shares ≠ endorsements. (he/him)
@frgiacbelloli.bsky.social
priest in the church of england | theology, poetics, activism | he/him
@profjenthompson.bsky.social
Scholar of US Judaism, intermarriage, applied ethics, secular Jews. Admirer of unions, democracy. Student of sewing. Former Alaskan. New book: Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition.
@stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
Author, Academic, Campaigner Also: Language Linguistics Religion Education Aston University Birmingham Community Organising Running Immigration Veganism bit.ly/m/SPihlaja
@drkatiecross.bsky.social
Practical theologian working and teaching at the University of Aberdeen. Scottish/Greek Cypriot. Powered by caffeine and my mini dachshund! She/Her. 👩🏻🏫 linktr.ee/drkatiecross
@baffellierica.bsky.social
Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
@alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social
History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees
@medievaljews.bsky.social
Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
@paulakolata.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food. Current project: REFUSE on Buddhist excess and discard.
@lsw.bsky.social
Doctorando (filosofía) @TAMU; kritische Theorie, Filosofía de la Cultura, Philosophie and Theologie der Geschichte. Liberación erótica, pedagógica, y política. https://tamu.academia.edu/LucasScottWright
@kristinerosland.bsky.social
Associate Professor University of South-Eastern Norway. Reader of weird texts, from Nag Hammadi to fanfiction
@jeichlerlevine.bsky.social
Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization, Lehigh * Author, PAINTED POMEGRANATES AND NEEDLEPOINT RABBIS writing a new book on Disney/religion optional running+cat content https://jodieichlerlevine.com/ https://religion.cas.lehigh.edu/faculty-staff/jodi-eic
@karenod.bsky.social
“Earthy, funny, tender, and frank” Rambo Feminist theologian working on bodies, theologies, trauma, liturgy, Song of Songs, and smashing the patriarchy. Westcott House & Cambridge University (views my own etc etc)