Üsame Gelir @gelirusame.bsky.social Standing against terrorism is not an option, it's an obligation
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Oren 白松 @orenrobi.bsky.social they/elle/伊/any
🌅 Maat 'Iipay / stolen Kumeyaay Land
projectyano.org
mayfirst.coop
espaciomigrante.org
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razaeducators.org
queermikvehproject.org
christianhegemony.org
Domination Chronicles Podcast @dominationchron.bsky.social Because domination isn’t a metaphor—it’s a system. A podcast by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) and Peter d'Errico. Listen now at:
www.dominationchronicles.com.
Patrick Burrows @lpburrows.bsky.social Theology, ethics, queer studies, Dolly Parton | North Carolinian | GDTBATH, YNWA | he/him
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
Taylor Driggers(-McDowall) @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social Author, QUEERING FAITH IN FANTASY LITERATURE (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Editor & nonfiction writer: fantasy, queerness, theology. 2024 Le Guin Fellow. Secretary of Govanhill Voices. Creative nonfiction at https://buttondown.com/taylordriggers-mcdowall
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Postdoc at Wesleyan University.
Silje Lyngar Einarsen @siljelei.bsky.social Associate professor specialised in Indic religions and languages @MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society.
M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. @madryaeltong.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.🌹🥢🏳️🌈 #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/היא
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
Emily Gathergood @emilygathergood.bsky.social New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.
John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Aršāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024). Guggenheim Fellow.
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
Christy Cobb @christycobb.bsky.social PhD in New Testament & Early Christianity /
Associate Prof @ Univ. of Denver /
Slavery, Gender, Sexuality /
Single Mom by Choice (SMC) to a 8 yo
#VeryAsian Dr. Sid Sudiacal (he/him/siya) 🇵🇭🇨🇦 @drsids.bsky.social Filipino Canadian scholar interested in the intersection of psychology, history, and theology.
Views are my own.
Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami; Professorial Research Fellow @Universität Wien (2026–2028)
https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh
http://robynfaithwalsh.com
Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer’s. Reposts do not indicate agreement.
Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they.
// medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture //
https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social author, Appalling Bodies (OUP)
co-editor, Trans Biblical (WJK)
founding co-editor, QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion
counter-kyriarchal killjoy
professor, religious studies + women’s and gender studies
a bit of a mess here
Jill Hicks-Keeton @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social
Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him.
web: https://rickbrannan.com
Dr. Nick Elder @nickelder.bsky.social Assoc Prof of NT | Ancient Media | Papyri | Positive Vibes Critical Pedagogy | Un/Specs Grading | 2000–2020s Dad Rock | Midwesterner
Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things.
She/Her
Dr. Jennifer Quigley @jenniferquigley.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament
@candlertheology
UMC elder
Views my own, not my employer
Ekaputra Tupamahu @ekaputrat.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art.
www.lynnrhuber.com
David A. Burnett @davidaburnett.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins @ University of Edinburgh | Religion Faculty @ St. Anthony School, Milwaukee | Student/teacher of Judaism & Christianity in Antiquity #firstgen
https://linktr.ee/davidaburnett
Joshua Schachterle @jschac.bsky.social
Currently an independent scholar, hopefully a future professor of Early Christianity. Researching monasticism & asceticism. Dad. Punk rocker.
Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social Amateur pastry chef
Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author, The Epistles of John (Cambridge 2026) and The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford 2025) #LGM
Personal site: http://www.hugomendez.com
New Book: https://amzn.to/4jT6pJZ
Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social Historian of Early Christianity. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant speculator about the occasion of ancient documents. I do not speak for my employer.
Ryan Collman @ryancollman.bsky.social NT PhD (Edinburgh) | Early Judaism, Circumcision, Paul, Early Christianity |
Check out my book with De Gruyter
Jamie Davies @jamiedavies.bsky.social Tutor of New Testament, Trinity College Bristol | Author: ‘Paul Among the Apocalypses’ 'The Apocalyptic Paul: Retrospect & Prospect' 'Reading Revelation' 'Theology on the Run' | Views my own
Sarah Parkhouse @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social Researcher in early Christianity, (late) antiquity, gods & rituals, landscape & place, gospel literature, martyrs, gnostics, Coptic Egypt, and Roman amphitheatres. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah.parkhouse
Charles “Austin” Rivera @carivera.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Church History at Wake Forest Divinity School | Ephrem and Origen, theology and poetry | Methodist preacher
Cristian Cardozo Mindiola @criscardozomin.bsky.social I am interested in the reception history of Revelation in antiquity and NT Apocrypha.
NT Professor at Adventist University of Colombia
Megan Wines @meganwines.bsky.social Biblical scholar working on apocalypse and masculinity and the bible in popular culture; theatre artist; lover of stories, cats, and beer; probably watching a hockey game or reading a romance novel; she/her 🏳️🌈
Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social #BLM | Professor in Mountains of NC | Nerd about Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
Joel Baden @joelbaden.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University.
Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow of Religious Studies at Washington & Jefferson College | pronounced "CAUTION-osh" | he/him
Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social Historian of religion\s at University of Fribourg (CH). linktr.ee/drMBrand PhD, first book: http://tinyurl.com/5n7kt5fs. Interested in Religion, Alternative Histories, History, Comparison, Theory - and sometimes in Manichaeans. #Schweiz
Dr. Beth Rohlman @beadskrit.bsky.social She/Her. Historian of Philosophy and Religion. Sanskritist. Professor. Detroit Roots. Aspiring Canadian. Fluevog Love. Long Covid Life.
Proud 3rd generation union member. It all started when two of my grandfathers sat down in Flint.
Santiago Slabodsky @santiagoslabodsky.bsky.social Sociologist of Knowledge; Global South Barbarian; FRK Chair at Hofstra-NY; Cronopio; Inorganic Intellectual; Non-Jewish Jew; ; Carry-on Traveler.
Gregory M. Clines, PhD @gregoryclines.bsky.social South Asian Religions, Jain Studies, Sanskrit Literature. Assistant professor Trinity University.
Michael DeVries @michaeldevries.bsky.social PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social | Second Temple Judaism | Dead Sea Scrolls | Qumran war tradition | Currently researching ritual, cognition, and the Qumran movement | Adjunct Professor | #LADodgers #LARams
Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social Professor of religious studies, Musician, Curator, and other stuff. Mostly here to talk about records.
Academics: https://danielwyche.weebly.com/
Arts: www.wyche.org
Jacob W. Torbeck @jacobtorbeck.bsky.social Professor of Theology, Religions, Philosophy, and Ethics | Mysticism & Spirituality | Attention, Memory, and the Divine Ideas
Burke Gerstenschlager @bleaktheology.bsky.social Finishing “Tears in Their Eyes: Joy Division as Theological Lamentation”. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Antifascist. UT Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Lutherpalian. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.
Cláudio Carvalhaes @ccarvalhaes.bsky.social Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Irene Oh @ireneoh.bsky.social Religion Professor @GWU
What am I *not* interested in? is the better question...
Author: What is Religious Ethics? | The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights & Comparative Ethics
Editor: Journal of Religious Ethics
Honolulu - Washington, DC
Brook Wilensky-Lanford @brookwl.bsky.social Author of A GOD-SHAPED NATION and PARADISE LUST, religion writing teacher and editor, eternal student, Chapel Hill cat lady. www.brookwilensky-lanford.com
Teemu Taira @teemutaira.bsky.social 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
Dov Waxman @dovwaxman.bsky.social Professor of Israel Studies at UCLA, scholar-in-residence at Nexus Project, writing about antisemitism, Israel-Palestine, US-Israel relations, & American Jews. My new book: "The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine."
Matt Hedstrom @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.
George Archer @meaningfulhandle.bsky.social Some guy you kinda know who rants like a lot. I am a professor of religion… which I will never discuss on main. Aspiring “Dude.”
Geoffrey Claussen @geoffclaussen.bsky.social Religious Studies/Jewish Studies Professor at Elon University. Author: Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought • Jewish Ethics: The Basics • Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar
Sébastien Doane, PhD @sebastiendoane.bsky.social Professor, biblical studies, Université Laval.
Enthusiastic scholar/tired dad ;)
"Theoreticaly supercharged!" Stephen Moore
Olav Børreson Fossdal @olavfossdal.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion, University of Oslo
Writing about asylum, migration and religious conversion
https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/study-of-religion/temporary/olavbf/index.html
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
Yosef Rosen @yoselle.bsky.social Historian of Kabbalah & Jewish Magic.
Director of Jewish Life & Learning at the Portland Jewish Federation.
Lauren A. Tassone @tassone.bsky.social PhD student in Religion @ Harvard focusing on Catholicism, gender, & media •
Harvard Divinity and UMich alum | views my own
Dr Tom de Bruin @tdbiii.bsky.social (he/they) non-binary New Testament & Early Christianity scholar, author, sci-fi fan. Assistant Prof Radboud University | Editor of JIBS
hurstonian @ahmadgreene.com 🏫 professor, writer, lover
✨views are my own.
Michael T Miller-Wierzbicki @drmikemw.bsky.social Academic research on Judaism, esp Black Jews and Black Hebrew Israelites. Posts about religion. Music-loving vegan. Family man. From Birmingham to Warsaw via Liverpool and Nottingham. Animal lover, environmentalist.
Jason Goroncy @jasongoroncy.bsky.social gubba | musician | academic
jasongoroncy.com
Alda Balthrop-Lewis @iamalda.bsky.social 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
David Newheiser @dnewheiser.bsky.social 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/
Prof Jasjit Singh @profjasjitsingh.bsky.social Professor Religion and Global Engagement @universityofleeds.bsky.social - religion, race, media. Pro Dean International LeedsUniAHC. #Sikh Husband, Dad(x2). RP/Like≠Endorsement. Views my own.
SBuckhanonCrowder, Ph.D. @sbuckhanonc.bsky.social Drinks biblical studies coffee with #sports sweetener, literature syrup, and pop culture creamer. #WomanistMomma #WCBB #WBB #WNBA #Blackademia #BlackSky #AcademicSky
www.drsbuckhanonc.com
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
Daniel Vaca @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
N. Fadeke Castor @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/
Anna C. @anna-cwikla.bsky.social Recent PhD Graduate, freelance copyeditor, lover of cats and concerts
Jan Vömel @janvoemel.bsky.social Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Dr. Arlene SanchezWalsh @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
SB Rodriguez-Plate @sbrodriguez.bsky.social Partner, Parent, Professor
Writer, Walker, Wanderer
ED of APRIL
Editor of CrossCurrents
Prof of Religious Studies
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
SEBenton @sebenton.bsky.social New Testament, Ancient Associations, Lecturer Religion + Ministry, writer of Women Patrons and Mothers in Associations and the New Testament (*NOW OUT** Mohr), sometime church minister, dog fan, hobby runner (have dined with int’l runners😉)
Sean Hannan @seanhannan.bsky.social Associate Professor at MacEwan University
PhD in History of Christianity from UChicago
Author of this book: http://tinyurl.com/yakq2y4y
And also this book: https://tinyurl.com/42a22cek
More stuff here:
https://seanhannan.hcommons.org/
Kerith Woodyard @kerith.bsky.social Associate Professor. Argumentation, Advocacy, Rhetoric of Religion. #TeamRhetoric
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Philosopher of emotion. West coast soul in Philly.
Now researching: Secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration, conspiracy theory.
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
🚫 AI
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Sasha Mariel @sashamariel.bsky.social Poet, ethnographer, scholar of religion. Explorer of the medieval modern.
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
David Tollerton @davidtollerton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Memory Studies at the University of Exeter. Director of the Exeter Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies @exetercihgs.bsky.social Main areas: public Holocaust memory + memorialisation of the COVID-19 pandemic
David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Samira K. Mehta @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!
Andrea Dara Cooper @andreadaracooper.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of “Gendering Modern Jewish Thought.” Stealth Canadian.
Laura Ammon @lauraammon.bsky.social Religion Professor/First Year Program Director at App State; scifi geek, cat lady. West Coast woman in the South.
Steve Knowles @steveknowles.bsky.social Retired Religious Studies academic. Season ticket holder LFC. Don’t buy the Sun!