Ben Phillips @benjaphillips.bsky.social Love being a Hospice Chaplain near Nashville. Providing spiritual care to those facing end of life or impacted by it. Interested in Social Justice topics and Loving my neighbor.
Dr Lindsay de Wal @drlindsaydewal.bsky.social BA,MA,PhD|UK’s 1st NHS Humanist Head of Chaplaincy|Director Humanist-Existential Care [EHSN]|Head of Pastoral Care [NRPSN]|Thoughts are my own|Published Author|
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
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Yijian “Lexa” Lyu @cavalla.bsky.social PhD student in religious studies
Lena Rose @lena-rose22.bsky.social Anthropologist of Law, Religion & Migration | Author of 'Palestinian Evangelicals and Global Evangelicalism' (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/palestinian-evangelicals-and-global-evangelicalism-9780197800232?cc=de&lang=en&#)
Health & Social Care Chaplaincy Journal @hscchaplaincy.bsky.social An international journal that assists health and social care chaplains to explore the art and science of spiritual care within a variety of contexts.
Society of Biblical Literature @sblsite.bsky.social Founded in 1880 to foster biblical scholarship.
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Professor, probably thinking about emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
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ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology
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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.
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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament • Yale Divinity School • biblical texts in immigration, borders, apocalypse, textuality, biological metaphors
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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
Robert Wuthnow @rwuth.bsky.social Sociologist interested in the Religious Left
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Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
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Abraham Hawley Suárez @abrahamhawley.bsky.social PhD Candidate UC Santa Barbara| Religion & the Secular 🇲🇽 | CES_COLMEX & UNAM_FCPyS Alumni | ReligionSEMIR Director | #FulbrightGR grantee |🎸avecesjawli
Marie Griffith @mariegriffith.bsky.social US religious history, gender & sexuality studies, religion & politics. Professor at WashU in St. Louis. Writing a book on clergy sexual abuse across American Christianity. https://rap.wustl.edu/people/r-marie-griffith/
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Class 200 @class200.bsky.social Class 200 offers the most innovative works in the study of religion today. The series aims to nurture uncompromising interpretations of what religion is, and what it means for our present and future worlds. Edited by Kathryn Lofton and John Lardas Modern
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Joe Blankholm @joeblankholm.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UC-Santa Barbara. Author of The Secular Paradox (NYU 2022). Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. Book under contract with W. W. Norton.
Dr. Mara Einstein @drmaraeinstein.bsky.social Cults • MLMs • higher ed • religion • deceptive marketing.
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Mark C E Peterson PhD @motleycow.bsky.social Emeritus philosopher & gadfly, poet, cook, #taijiquan, #ukulele
I write along the watermargins of philosophy, mythology, religion, culture, and nature.
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Stephen Prothero @sprothero.bsky.social Part-time agnostic. Writer on politics&religion. BU Emeritus Prof of US Religions. Cape Codder. Hispanophile. Author of books w/ "religion," "God," and other make-believes in the titles. Next up: BETRAYAL: HOW THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS SOLD OUT THEIR FOUNDERS.
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.
Amanda M. Nichols @amanda-m-nichols.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. My work focuses on anti-nuclear activism, nuclear technologies, disproportionate impact, environmental justice, and climate change.
ISSRNC @issrnc.bsky.social The ISSRNC is an international society which promotes critical, interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships among human beings and their diverse cultures, environments, and religious beliefs and practices.
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
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