Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
Rachel Wagner @drrachelwagner.bsky.social 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
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
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Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
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J Barts, PhD (he/him/his) @jbartashius.bsky.social religion & film/gender/migration. pubs on stranger things/lady bird/fight club. bylines: @japantimes@kyotojournal@civilbeat
@religiondispatches@deepkyoto
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Samantha Rae Hauw @samanthahauw.bsky.social PhD candidate / conscious dance, contemporary spirituality, relational being / sociology / graduate research teaching fellow Deakin Uni
unceded Wurundjeri lands
Naarm Melbourne Australia
The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social Award-winning magazine (and podcast) about religion, society, and media published by NYU's Center for Religion & Media. https://therevealer.org/
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Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
Thomas Tweed @tomtweed.bsky.social 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
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
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Religion Call For Papers (relcfp) @relcfp.com RELCFP is a religious studies call for papers repository (relcfp.com)
paulftremlett @paulftremlett.bsky.social 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.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 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
NOSTER @nosternl.bsky.social Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion | Platform for academic research and training
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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social 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
亶法荷 @dfineffable.bsky.social Assistant Professor Philosophy and Religion at University of Humanistic Studies
SWell Research Network @swellresearchnw.bsky.social Spirituality and Wellbeing (SWell) Research Network
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James Bielo @secondhandsacred.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social I curate, write, research and teach. About art, religion, heritage, meaning making. I work as Senior researcher Art & Rurality at Hanze.
Exhibit "Lou Loeber. Artist and Idealist", now on view at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies at Utrecht University | Member of De Jonge Akademie | PI NWO VIDI “Iran’s Secular Shift” (2025-2030)
Rebekka King @rebekkaking.bsky.social 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) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social 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.
Andie Alexander @andieray.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Sessional Lecturer in Religious Studies @ Uni Hannover・Managing Editor @projectrs.bsky.social・Contributor & Online Curator @idendefying
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If you meet me in person, I'm probably the one wearing purple.
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Anna Strhan @annastrhan.bsky.social 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
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social 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.
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Philosopher of emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social 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)
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
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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
Caroline Starkey @carostarkey.bsky.social 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.
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
Nonreligion in a Complex Future @nonreligioncf.bsky.social 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/
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/
Hannah Gould @hannahgould.bsky.social Researching death, technology and religion. Future food for worms.
The Religious Studies Project @projectrs.bsky.social Podcasts and commentary on the social-scientific and critical study of religion, in association with the BASR and NAASR
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Implicit Religion @implicitreligion.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. 
Religion & the Public Sphere @religionssrc.bsky.social 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.
Rachel B. Gross @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
Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social she/her feminist author
Books: The seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
(And others)
Newsletter https://www.feministgiant.com/
Anna Halafoff @annahalafoff.bsky.social Sociology of religion, spirituality, nature-connection, disinformation, diverse worldviews, Buddhism in Australia, and Dzogchen
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Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
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Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
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🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
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