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Anthropologist.

New project: Christianity and Fossil Fuels (what I call "Carbon Christianity").

Ongoing Research: Honduras, Christianity, Secularism, Race and Religion.

mtholyoke.academia.edu/WilliamGirard

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Wow! That’s wonderful. Thanks!

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Hahaha! Thats so funny. Didn’t even notice!

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Also, Anne Nelson, Shadow Network. And Joseph Witt, Religion and Resistance in Appalachia. Thanks so much for all of your amazing work!

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Thanks so much for asking! Here’s a syllabus I put together, but the topic is fragmented, so a lot of this isn’t specifically about religion and climate: www.academia.edu/107240867/Ca...

That said, this is a wonderful book: 283). Richard J. Callahan, Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields

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In part, they also probably like that fact that it would make their jobs easier—a new and dramatic development to write about.

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I know that it’s dangerous to hold on too tightly to formative political experiences of your youth. But that said: I just can’t get over how much all of the lessons of the post 9/11 era, War on Terror, Iraq and the protests against same are being just entirely excised from collective memory.

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The reactions of two Jewish Columbia students, from today's New York Times report on the protests.

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“As for the students, [they had among them] those who, like Ché Guevara, ‘trembled with indignation every time an injustice is committed in the world.’… That's why I will never allow it to be said that youth is wasted on the young.” Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (1983)

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I'll reiterate that I've been a college professor for 16 years, I make my living thinking about college students and interacting with them, and I still don't think about them as much as NYT and Atlantic writers seem to

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No exaggeration to say that I've been waiting to read this book for almost 20 years! Roosbelinda Cardenas is brilliant; I know her book will be as well!

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One of the most important sentences I ever read about "religion": "I assume...that there is nothing essentially religious, nor any universal essence that defines 'sacred language' or 'sacred experience.'" (T Asad, Formations of the Secular, 25).

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But her emails

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At the beginning of last semester, I asked the students in a course on climate change if they had heard about any of the various provisions in the IRA. Crickets. Message is definitely not getting through.

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Sometimes the depth of the connections between Israel/Judaism and Latin America is mind-blowing. Couple things I just happened to come across in the past couple days. Arévalo (hopefully soon to be president of Guatemala) lived in Israel for 10 years. Milei in Argentina plans to convert to Judaism

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First they came for the university Presidents, and although I did not have much sympathy for the way those same presidents had overseen a regime of adjunctification, neoliberal austerity, and gutting of higher education it still seemed really fucked up and a frightening portent of what is to come.

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The fact that the media will lambast a 19 year old college kid for saying dumb shit and treat it as a national crisis but tiptoes like this when it comes to the worlds richest man (who keep in mind has actual military contracts) really let’s you know none of this has anything to do with principles

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“That’ll do, Bigotry. That’ll do.”

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Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?”

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Would love to know where this is from! Would be so helpful in my Introduction to cultural anthropology class.

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The Pope cited Donna Haraway in his most recent statement on climate change. My worlds are really coming together.

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I've found it really helpful to think with.

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Have been thinking about this. Are you familiar with Marilyn Strathern's figure of the "partial connections."

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Please help me get the word out: The University of San Diego is searching for a TT assistant prof of Black/Womanist Theologies. I am new to USD but happy to answer any questions I can. Karen Teel is chairing the search committee:. Deadline is Sept. 12: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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My greatest intellectual achievement, putting together this collection of readings for the the Purification/Disenchantment week: Taylor, Secular Age Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern Keane, Christian Moderns Schmidt, Hearing Things Hirschkind, Ethical Soundscape

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Syllabus from my Carbon Christianities course, Fall 2022.

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If you're interested in fossil fuels, an unbelievable amount of information here.

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Fracking uses a LOT of water. "Together, oil and gas operators reported using about 1.5 trillion gallons of water since 2011, much of it from aquifers, the Times found. Fracking a single oil or gas well can now use as much as 40 million gallons of water or more."

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Hey #Plath friends, you gotta come check out this exhibit at Smith College focused on Plath's botanical inspirations for her bell jar metaphor! It's up all year, and I will give you a personal tour. It's beautiful and you get to walk around a plant conservatory.

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One of my favorite courses to teach: Race and Religion in Latin America.

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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst's avatar Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social
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I’m chairing a search for a postdoc that can turn into a TT line in race, religion & the Americas

please hmu with questions

happy to chat specifics

www.uvm.edu/sites/defaul...

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Thought I'd toss this up here. The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas.

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