Caitlin Fitzgerald @caitlinfitzgerald.bsky.social Sociology PhD student @notredame focusing on the intersection of religion, culture, and health | Graduate Scholar @HumanEcologyCUA
Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Co-director, Religion and State Project
Territorial Conflict, Politics & Religion, Extremist Social Movements
New Book: Religious Minorities at Risk, Oxford, w Matthias Basedau & Jonathan Fox
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern, Visiting Researcher at WZB Berlin
Culture, political sociology, NLP, social networks, computational social science
oscarstuhler.org
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 | Ⓐ
Michael E. Heyes @thedemonologist.bsky.social I am a professor of religion who teaches elements of popular culture, monstrosity, and medieval studies. My writings are primarily about demons and the demonic, currently present-day American demonology and politics: https://www.michaeleheyes.com/
Lydia Bean @lydiabean.bsky.social Small business owner, community leader, and mom running for Tarrant County Clerk.
Marietta van der Tol @marietta1.bsky.social University of Cambridge | Trinity College | Conferences in Political Theologies | Comparative study of religion in politics, law and society | All the interdisciplinary stuff | Constitutionalist.
Véronique Altglas @valtglas.bsky.social Sociologist researching religion, social class, and politics. Queen's University Belfast. Trade union activist. Tá Gaeilge Agam; falo português do Brasil; にほんご を べんきょう します。
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, KU | Who Is a New Christian? (Cambridge, 2024) | Bylines: Christian Century, Sojourners, Presby Outlook, Revealer
Hannah I. Pearson @pearson-hi.bsky.social She/Her | ✡️ | 🌈 | First Gen |
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Warren Wilson College 🐻🌲
Focusing on how religion & culture impact our thoughts & behaviors.
Elizabeth Gish @elizabethgish.bsky.social religious studies / democracy / psychotherapy
minister @ Christian Church (DOC) / Senior Program Officer @ Kettering Foundation / psychotherapist @ Lotus & Phoenix Psychotherapy
*all posts / likes mine and not reflective of my employers*
Michel Chambon 陈立邦 @michelchambon.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist, Sinologist, French Catholic Theologian, Christianity in Asia.
https://michelchambon.com
Coordinator of ISAC
https://isac-research.org
C. James Law @doclaw.bsky.social Religious studies scholar with a wide range of interests, including but not limited to - civil religion, memorialization, gender, and sexuality
Kerith Woodyard @kerith.bsky.social Associate Professor. Argumentation, Advocacy, Rhetoric of Religion. #TeamRhetoric
Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social Assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study identity-based division and how to reduce it, with a focus on ethno-religious conflict. Cinnabon enthusiast. michaelhpasek.com
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
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.
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
Joshua D. Reichard @jdreichard.bsky.social President/CEO, Omega Graduate School, American Centre for Research in the Social Sciences (ACRSS) | ogs.edu
joshuareichard.com | 📚 GS: tinyurl.com/jdrscholar
Sociology • Theology • Comp. Science Education • Vintage Computing • Amateur Radio
Uzair Ahmed @uzaahm.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo @crexuio.bsky.social @statsvitenskap.bsky.social. Sociologist working on the racialisation of Muslims. Interested in racialisation, islamophobia, radicalisation and extremism.
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
Whose Dad Fought Fascism in WWII? Kids of Antifa, Unite 😇 ! @ninaeliasoph.bsky.social 🐣 I like multiple realities, absurdity (except when it fills up the gov't), class politics, sociological imagination, forests 🦆 🐿️ 🐣
I draw & write: Ethnography, democratic theory, graphic nonfiction. Send me your thoughts to make into words/drawings!
Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social Historian; Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest. PhD in History @CEU Budapest. 🎓 History & historiography of fascism and antisemitism/history of the Jewish community in Romania. 🗃
https://unibuc.academia.edu/ValentinSandulescu
Hamdullah Baycar @hamdullahbaycar.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @KTU IR
PhD @ExeterIAIS I MA @HarvardCMES
#UAE #Gulf #Identity #Nationalism #Orientalism
https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/hamdullahbaycar/
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🏃♂️✅
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Dr Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of Leeds. New/minority religions. Socialist. I love cats, coffee, and off-kilter pop music. He/him. 🖖
Ann Youngblood Mulhearn @aym42.bsky.social historian | writer | political gadfly
short, loud, and opinionated
(opinions expressed here are my own)
Omri Elisha @omrielisha.bsky.social Anthropologist of religion at Queens College/The Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of Moral Ambition: Mobilization & Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches (2011)
Currently thinking about astrology, spirituality, and historical consciousness.
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. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Margaret Somers @peggs.bsky.social Prof. of Sociology and History, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor: Karl Polanyi; Law and Political Economy; dedemocratization and fascism; historical political economy; citizenship rights; social theory.
Şener Aktürk @senerakturk.bsky.social Author of "Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe.” Professor at Koç University. Comparative Politics; Nationalism; Religion; Regimes of Ethnicity; History of Ideas; Grand Strategy. www.senerakturk.com
Clare Bath MA @clarebath.bsky.social Sociology PhD student @ndsociology.bsky.social, MA in Peace and Justice from the University of San Diego.
Researching transnational social movements, development in unrecognized countries, civil society, and politics.
Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social Researcher in conspiracy theories, religion, gender, extremism, end times, and hate. Lecturer at the University of Waterloo.
Carmencelestini.com
https://drcarmencelestini.substack.com/?r=19nlu2&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist
My Book GodsAngryMen.com
Andy Tix @andytix.bsky.social Psychology Professor and writer, exploring well-being science, religion, and spirituality.
🌐 andytix.com
🌐 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pursuit-peace
🌐 andytix.substack.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.
Cees Grootes 🚴🏻♂️ @ceesgrootes.bsky.social Sociologist:
Research Methodology, Social & Policy Research, Data Science, IT, Epistemology, Philosophy
Retired consultant International Development, Foreign Aid
Crossed int. borders 1000+ times
Lived in Curaçao 🇨🇼, The Netherlands 🇳🇱, Spain 🇪🇦, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Brooklyn Walker @brooklynwalker.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UTK Political Science
PhD, University of Kansas
MA, University of Michigan
BA, Kansas State University
Religion and politics, American political behavior, political psychology, public opinion
Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social Ancient Jew Review is a subscription-free digital journal for the study of ancient Jews and their neighbors. ancientjewreview.com
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social JIBS is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing cutting edge articles that embody interdisciplinary, social justice-oriented, feminist, queer, trans-inclusive and innovative biblical scholarship. Find us at https://jibs.hcommons.org/
Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @scibs-sheffield.bsky.social Teaching & researching innovative, interdisciplinary biblical studies. PG applications welcome.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scibs
Pop Culture & Theology (& Religion, too) @popandtheology.bsky.social The Bloomsbury Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/theology-religion-and-pop-culture/
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.
AABNER journal @aabner.bsky.social The journal is the first open-access and forum-peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire fields of biblical studies, ANE, and cognate fields, and it is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, non-discrimination, and academic rigor. /aabner.org
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social The official account of the JJRS and NIRC. Follow for publications and event announcements.
https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp
Religion at Otago @otagoreligion.bsky.social Religion Programme at the University of Otago |
"E mea ana te Kawana ko nga whakapono katoa o Ingarani, o nga Weteriana, o Roma, me te ritenga Maori hoki e tiakina ngatahitia e ia" - Article 4, Tiriti o Waitangi
American Religions at Stanford @argcstanford.bsky.social Interdisciplinary hub for the study of American Religions in a Global Context @Stanford. Find out more: http://argc.stanford.edu
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Women's Classical Caucus @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social The social media arm of the Women's Classical Caucus, an Affiliate of the Society for Classical Studies
Find us at https://www.wccclassics.org/
Joint Doctoral Program in the Study of Religion - DU/Iliff @duiliffjdp.bsky.social We believe innovative and exciting academic inquiries depend on conversations between people who approach the study of religion from different angles.
Website: du.edu/duiliffjoint/
Due to curriculum changes new applications will open September, 2027.
Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
https://rels.sas.upenn.edu
International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social Bridging Disciplines • Supporting Scholarship • Connecting the Public at catacombsociety.org.
Medieval Studies at Lincoln @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social A podcast about religion from two nonreligious religion scholars who care about religion. With @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social
(Alternately known as Scholars and Swear Words)
BLOG: https://bit.ly/3OhMw14
POD: https://bit.ly/3WnQvxT
Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies @uclhjs.bsky.social University College London is the only UK university with a department dedicated to Jewish Studies. Our programs span from ancient texts to modern politics.
Account run by Dept Admin, CMJ
American Religion @amrel.bsky.social Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
Theological Studies @ SLU @theologyslu.bsky.social The Saint Louis University Department of Theological Studies is a community of faculty and students committed to learning, justice, and empathy.
Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team @mwhitcentral.bsky.social Promoting research and networking in the field of Mormon women’s history. On IG/FB at “I Love Mormon Women’s History,” elsewhere @ MWHITcentral.
Leo Baeck College @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social Centre of excellence for Rabbinic training and Jewish learning.
lbc.ac.uk
Also:
https://www.facebook.com/LeoBaeckCollege
https://www.instagram.com/leo_baeck_college/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/leo-baeck-college
Jewish Review of Books @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
Subscribe at https://www.ezsubscription.com/jrb/subscribe
Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social Where history lives and grows.
JWA.org
@fsrinc.bsky.social @fsrinc.bsky.social
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/
Recovira - Religious Communities in the Virtual Age @recovira.bsky.social CHANSE-funded study looking at how religious life has changed with the embrace of digital tech since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Likes/Retweets are not endorsements
Religious Studies @ Elon University @elonrels.bsky.social The Department of Religious Studies at Elon University https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/arts-and-sciences/religious-studies/
Sacred Writes Public Scholarship @sacredwrites.bsky.social Helping religion scholars communicate with the public since 2018.
www.sacred-writes.org
CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies @cujewishstudies.bsky.social Academic program at the University of Colorado Boulder offering Majors and Minors in Jewish Studies.
https://linktr.ee/cujewishstudies
Journal of Religious History @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.
The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors @jewishheritage.bsky.social Preserving New England Jewish history, exploring Jewish heritage, and advancing understanding of the American Jewish experience. 🕎
https://jewishheritagecenter.org/
Religion Call For Papers (relcfp) @relcfp.com RELCFP is a religious studies call for papers repository (relcfp.com)
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity @aartela.bsky.social The Bluesky account of the American Academy of Religion Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit.
Buber-Rosenzweig-Institut @buber-rosenzweig.bsky.social Forschungsinstitut für jüdische Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte der Moderne und Gegenwart an der @goetheuni.bsky.social. https://buber-rosenzweig-institut.de
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
Religious Studies OU @religiousstudiesou.bsky.social religion_ou
Jewish Studies @ Elon University @elonjewishstudies.bsky.social The Jewish Studies Program at Elon University
https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/arts-and-sciences/jewish-studies/
Stanford Jewish Studies @stanfordtaube.bsky.social The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford offers an interdisciplinary program for the study & understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics & history.
Minority Protestants Research Network @minorityprotestant.bsky.social Interdisciplinary network joining together international sholars and postgraduates working on Protestantism as a minority religion.
Website: https://minorityprotestants.wordpress.com
Account managed by @karinabwendling.com
CenSAMM @censamm.bsky.social Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. www.censamm.org
Religion, Politics, & Culture Research Workshop at Stanford @rpc-at-stanford.bsky.social 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!
Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota @umn-rels.bsky.social Investigating the role of religion in society, culture, and individual experience. Preparing students for life in a religiously diverse world.
Newsletter 📩
https://mailchi.mp/34f63507040a/religious-studies-newsletter-sign-up
Jewish Studies at Dalhousie University @daljewishstudies.bsky.social
UoM Religion @uomreligion.bsky.social Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, Official Bluesky account. Keep up to date with departmental happenings on the blog https://manchester-religions-and-theology.blogspot.com/
Theology @ PTF CUNI @ptfcuni.bsky.social Protestant Theological Faculty of the Charles Unviersity in Prague. Undergraduate & PhD degrees in English | Research in Theology, Biblical Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Social work, and History
https://web.etf.cuni.cz/ETFENG-1.html
Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.
Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch
SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social SBL Press simultaneously publishes hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions of essential research in the fields of biblical studies and related disciplines.
Catholic University Special Collections @catholicuarchives.bsky.social Special Collections at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. We collect, preserve, and make accessible the records of the American Catholic people, CatholicU, and the campus Rare Books and Museum. Open to all!
Bloomsbury Religious Studies @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social Innovative global research, reference & textbooks in religious
studies. Open access options are also available. See T&T Clark for theology & biblical studies.
T&T Clark @tandtclark.bsky.social Publishing cutting-edge scholarship in biblical studies & theology since 1821. Home of Barth, Schillebeeckx & more. See Bloomsbury Religious Studies for religious studies.
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.