Religion, Politics, & Culture Research Workshop at Stanford
The Blokker Research Workshop: Religion, Politics, & Culture, funded by the Stanford Humanities Center, hosts hybrid events on a variety of topics with the goal of enhancing the interdisciplinary study of religion. Follow along to learn about our program!
@annetaylor.bsky.social
Sociologist @Yale. Incoming prof @MtHolyoke. she/her. Theory, culture, religion, media, performance, sport. Recent pub: “A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe” https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2024.236507
@profsamperry.bsky.social
Professor | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag and The Cross; Religion for Realists | CV: https://tinyurl.com/4hs86ntn
@samirakmehta.bsky.social
Scholar of American religion, especially American Judaism, focusing on Religion and Reproductive Politics in the US, Interfaith Families, Jews of Color. Knitter, cellist. Dogs and cats, living together!
@genezubovich.bsky.social
Historian of the modern United States. Author of BEFORE THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. Expert on history of human rights, US foreign relations, religion. Associate Prof, University at Buffalo, SUNY. www.genezubovich.com
@uomreligion.bsky.social
Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, Official Bluesky account.
@elprofebarba.bsky.social
Relig Prof at Amherst College | current research areas: immigration, Pentecostalism, Latino religion, sanctuary movt., & Cesar Chavez | Go Blue!
@ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social
Research and teaching center at Washington University in St. Louis focused on the many intersections of religion and U.S. politics. https://rap.wustl.edu/
@nellstra.bsky.social
Historian of transnational politics & religion between US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, histcatmex.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie. https://nathanellstrand.com/
@andrealturpin.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Baylor U. Author, *A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, & the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education.* Currently researching women in US religious controversies. Views my own.
@pharvey61.bsky.social
History, religion, books, basketball, coffee, yerba mate, wine, music, cats, academia, ongoing bonfire of the humanities. https://paulharvey.org
@harvardpress.bsky.social
Publisher of original scholarship that has shaped our intellectual life for over a century & classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia. | https://www.hup.harvard.edu
@gzurlo.bsky.social
Visiting Lecturer of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. Interests: quant studies, gender, methods, global history. 🌍
@relmedcentre.bsky.social
Independent and impartial - providing the media with information, context and expert comment
@livedreligion.bsky.social
A research and teaching initiative of Saint Louis University dedicated to the study and understanding of religion as it is lived in human experiences, systems, and material worlds.
@pewresearch.org
Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
@mjcressler.bsky.social
🤖 chief of staff for CPIT: https://www.cpitpbc.com/ ✍🏼 rogue scholar & writer 4 hire on Catholics + anti/racism, sex abuse, horror(s), pop culture, & more: https://matthewjcressler.com/ 💥 comix creator: https://badcatholics-comics.org/
@princetonccsr.bsky.social
Princeton University Center for Culture, Society & Religion is an academic initiative promoting scholarly research, teaching & public discussion about religion
@religionnewsblog.com
Religion News Blog: Hand-Selected News about religions, cults, sects, and related issues. If you have experienced spiritual abuse, see: bit.ly/SpiritualAbuse
@asanews.bsky.social
Founded in 1905, the ASA's mission is to serve sociologists in their work, advance sociology as a science and profession, and promote the contributions and use of sociology to society. Our most popular pages here: https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
@profkjoshi.bsky.social
Scholar: FDU | Author: White Christian Privilege Practitioner: Social Justice Education * http://idsj.us Pizza: Thin crust w/ extra jalapeños (she/her)
@historyjobs.bsky.social
Your best resource for recruiting historians. Find more jobs at careers.historians.org.
@sacredwrites.bsky.social
Helping religion scholars communicate with the public since 2018. www.sacred-writes.org
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@chicagomanual.bsky.social
The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar. An indispensable reference, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice at cmos.style/ONLINE. We answer your “Chicago Style” questions at cmos.style/QandA.
@northwestern-relst.bsky.social
We are the official BluSky site for the Religious Studies Department at Northwestern University. https://religious-studies.northwestern.edu/
@drrachelwagner.bsky.social
Author, Cowboy Apocalypse (2025) and Godwired (2012). Prof of Religious Studies @ Ithaca College, mom & caregiver, disgruntled idealist, loud introvert. Religion, gaming, politics, media, film. #cowboyapocalypse Next book on hope. Follow for hope skeets.
@mccutcheonsays.bsky.social
I’m University Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. I was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, weed the yard on the weekends and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
@religionssrc.bsky.social
A program of the Social Science Research Council, R&PS fosters research, discussion, and engagement around religion, secularism, spirituality, and belief.
@cprentiss.bsky.social
Religious studies prof, compulsive movie watcher, Fulbright alumn, recovering doomscroller
@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social
That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️ Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Lecturer & Assoc. Editor @ Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social
Postdoc Fellow @ Center for Mind and Culture | scholar of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast | Visiting Scholar @ GWU
@spiritcitizen.bsky.social
Black feminist ethnographer, African diaspora religions scholar, 💜 Ifá, Egbe & Orisa, Trini, author of award-winning Spiritual Citizenship (Duke 2017), YNWA https://www.fadekecastor.com/
@secondhandsacred.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
@j-religioushist.bsky.social
International double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality scholarship on the history of all religions & their relationship with human experience.
@sssreligion.bsky.social
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
@kginlum.bsky.social
Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
@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)
@mpgphd.bsky.social
✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America 🙄 also "cults" 💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org 🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF 📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020) pitch me! https://tinyurl.com/mpgphd
@nataliemavalos.bsky.social
Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own
@soraaad.bsky.social
SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
@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.
@rmclindsey.bsky.social
mom, associate professor of American Religion and Culture at Saint Louis University, lives in STL wants to read books, lift weights, and hang out with my dog
@ccjones.bsky.social
Historian of religion + race in North America + the Atlantic World. Editor, Journal of Mormon History. Also #BHAFC / #RSL.
@clementsaustinj.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | Writing a dissertation on the creation of the American far right | ASU West alum
@amsw66.bsky.social
Prof. Emerita (finally) still a Historian, Lakers fan, Boxing fan, Corgis, working on Latinx religion but first, Dan Berrigan bio. Chicana, ELA por vida
@linford.bsky.social
Early American historian @ Brown University; author of The Indian Great Awakening; Decoding Roger Williams; Reading Roger Williams. PI for @stolenrelations.bsky.social; father of four; loves to sail, run, hike, and run.
@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