Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social Multiculti mash-ups from the far edge of the Western world (Berkeley, CA): religion, food, language, education, photography, music, basic human decency.
Peter Singer @petersinger.info Author, Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Most Good You Can Do, Animal Liberation Now.
Podcast: petersinger.info/podcast
AI Persona: PeterSinger.ai
Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, Princeton University.
Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social Professor of the Study of Religions - ancient religions and contemporary popular culture, the environmental humanities; ancient Mesopotamia; HB/early Judaisms, ancient forms of Christianity
RelBib @relbib.bsky.social RelBib - Bibliography of the Study of Religion.
Official account of the Specialized Information Service for the Study of Religion.
#FID #Religionswissenschaft
https://relbib.de/Content/Impressum
Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social Historian of religion & race, archives, media/tech/comm, politics of education. History Prof & Dir. of Religious Studies @ University of Minnesota. Au: Christian Slavery (2018) and Archival Irruptions (2025). www.katharinegerbner.com
Manu S Pillai @waatcoconut.bsky.social Historian and author of five books. Latest: "Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity"
Laura Silver @lauraruthsilver.bsky.social Associate Director @pewresearch focused on global opinion, China. Formerly @StateDept. PhD from @PoliticsAtPenn, @AnnenbergPenn. Lover of dumplings and pangolins.
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social Rome’s English language magazine since 1985.
News, culture and insights into Rome and Italy.
www.wantedinrome.com
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University
Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025)
Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com
Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @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
Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.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 🏴☠️
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.
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social (she/her)
amateur & professional bookworm
NyashaJunior.com
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
https://megan-goodwin.com/design
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Full prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
S.J. Pearce @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.
Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social "A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @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
Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Black Lives Matter. Views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
he/him
Sam Brody @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
Dr Meredith JC Warren @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
Dov @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.
I.T. Soon @isaactsoon.bsky.social Writer of music, fiction, and scholarship. Recovering nihilist.
Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
Mark Leuchter @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.
DJ Aged P @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
Shayna Sheinfeld @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
Dr Jaime Ashworth @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
Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
CJ Schmidt (he/him) @cjosephus.bsky.social historian of (late) ancient Mediterranean religion + medicine | PhD dropout | #FirstGen | #Neurodivergent | #SOTL + pedagogy nerd | horror aficionado | Whovian | washed-up lacrosse player 🥍 | @vox-magica.bsky.social stan | 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇮🇹 (Rome)
Rob von Thaden @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)
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- A Adele Reinhartz @adeler.bsky.social I work on New Testament, in relation to Judaism, with sidelines in film studies and Holocaust memoirs.
Simran Jeet Singh @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
Beatrice Marovich @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
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
Rhiannon Grant @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.
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Juli Gittinger aka Dr G @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.
Matthew J. Suriano @duderonomy.bsky.social Associate professor and occasional archaeologist | scholar of ancient Western Asia specializing in Hebrew Bible | epigrapher | He/him
Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religion, St Mary’s University, Calgary (Treaty 7 territory). Eco-Religious Studies and Philosophy Scholar. Opinions are my own. Shares ≠ endorsements. (he/him)
Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social priest in the church of england | theology, poetics, activism | he/him
Dr. Jennifer "More Women More Witchcraft" Thompson @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.
Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social Language Linguistics Religion Education Aston University Birmingham Community Organising Running Immigration Veganism bit.ly/m/SPihlaja
Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. She/Her 👩🏻🏫🏴🇨🇾 https://linktr.ee/drkatiecross
Alison @alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees
Dr Dean Irwin @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.
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.
Lucas Scott Wright @lsw.bsky.social Doctorando @TAMU; kritische Theorie, Filosofía de la Cultura, Philosophie und Theologie der Geschichte. Liberación erótica, pedagógica, y política.
https://tamu.academia.edu/LucasScottWright
Kristine Toft Rosland @kristinerosland.bsky.social Associate Professor University of South-Eastern Norway. Reader of weird texts, from Nag Hammadi to fanfiction
Jodi Eichler-Levine @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
Karen O’Donnell @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)
Karolina Krasuska @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social Prof., University of Warsaw | transnational literature, gender/queer theory | “Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” (Rutgers UP, 2024)| 🐈⬛owner | she/her
Dr. Melissa Weininger @mirele.bsky.social Professor, author of Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the 21st Century. Co-writer, with Shayna Weiss, of the newsletter It's No Ibiza.
https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/beyond-land
https://noibiza.substack.com
Adam DJ Brett @adjb.co 🌲 International Research Associate @aila.social
📓 Associate editor @jcrt.org
🎓 Visiting Professor for Digital Humanities & Indigenous Studies
🍊 @syracuseu.bsky.social (PhD) alum
🕸️ www.adamdjbrett.com.
#acrel
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Dr C Naylor Davis @metalbiblescholar.bsky.social Metal studies, biblical studies, feminism, gender studies, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally, disability activism, vegan for the animals...a lot more fun than I sound. I promise.
Jenny Caplan @jennycaplan.bsky.social Associate Professor and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Sports fan and professional geek.
Author of Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Editor of Wit Happens
drjennifercaplan.com
David Feltmate @davidfeltmate.bsky.social Professor of Sociology; Scholar of Religion and Popular Culture, Humor, and Social Theory; Co-editor, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Scott Robertson @drmscott.bsky.social DFG Eigene Stelle, Universität Regensburg | PhD in NT from St Mary’s University, London | https://brill.com/display/title/68985?rskey=KqpGym&result=10
Viera Pirker @veryviera.bsky.social Professorin für Religionspädagogik und Mediendidaktik | VP Studium und Lehre @ goetheuni Frankfurt | hier privat
Emrys @librarytheologian.bsky.social Loves cheese, loves bread, loves coffee, says "fuck" a lot. A theologian who is queer and often angry.
Grace creates the shape of our obligations to one another. Access to resources helps us grow. Ethics is not about rules, it's about justice.
Joel Bordeaux🌹জোয়েল বোর্দো @joelbordeaux.bsky.social Humanities / Social Sciences researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.
S. Jonathon O'Donnell (they/them) @demonologian.bsky.social Author: Passing Orders (Fordham). Rogue Academic. US Religious & Cultural Studies. Intersectional Demonologist. Infernal Epicene.
Zachary Braiterman @zacharybraiterman.bsky.social Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University. Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought & Culture. Blogs at jewishphilosophyplace.com
reallyquitetired @reallyquitetired.bsky.social Academic (biblical studies, religion-culture-politics) | hobby designer | retired DJ | TV fiend | antifascist | 'tool of deep Woke' | (he/him)
Exeter, UK
Anders Ackfeldt @ackfeldt.bsky.social PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul.
“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it.”
Emmanuel Chiwetalu Ossai @ecossai.bsky.social Lecturer in Religion & Politics in the Global South @ Lancaster University. Interested in religion, peace, conflict, politics, Africa, Global South.
Paul Middleton @profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social Professor of NT and Early Christianity, University of Chester.
Researcher in violence and martyrdom in the ancient world.
Double Bass player and SNP member.
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Jaeda the Fabulous @jaedarising.bsky.social Bible scholar lost in library land
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social writer * indexer * auntie * library worker * human-shaped cat * phd in hebrew bible * gender/queer * vermonter in nh * union member * she/they
Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social Biblical-studies professor & Episcopal priest doing anarchist interpretation, resisting tyranny, & loving my neighbor | Posts mine
Once described as “dope teacher” in a student eval
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️-ally | Ⓐ
Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her.
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
Dr_F_Stewart (She/her) @drfstewart.bsky.social Sociologist of Religion: punk rock and anarchist subcultures; sXe punk; sound, music and orality; identity in Northern Ireland; sociology of disability; religion and popular culture. Implicit Religion.
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social Prof @ Providence College and lifelong resident of #RhodeIsland (more or less)
#Sabbaticaling
#EarlyChristianity
#Photography
#VirtualTravel
#SartorialTheology
#Interfaith
#Covid
Posts about ma figghia (that's Sicilian), my toddler daughter, too!
Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social Communist theologian. Angelologist. “Too angry and gratuitously crude” - Church Times
Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social Sparrow, lichen, music fan account
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
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
Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social librarian
ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology
also: hockey, fiber arts, pugs, yoga
keeganosinski.com
Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film
Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com
More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social writer. mother. gremlin. PhD. MFA. author: Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl & Sexism Ed. co-host: @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social Pod Only Knows: https://bit.ly/447CUOH
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social Religious Studies prof., York University, Toronto; writes on Christian apocrypha
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye