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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.


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Kevin O'Sullivan's avatar Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
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Brilliant. Shahmima will be speaking at an event we're running in Galway this September on decolonising humanities research. Will post the details later in the summer. 🗃️

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JL Sigman's avatar JL Sigman @jlsigman.bsky.social
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These ladies are INSANELY GOOD. I'm glad they're getting more listens on this side of the globe!

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Alana Vincent's avatar Alana Vincent @alana-m-vincent.net
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The fact that there is a runoff next week (during which time anti-RN parties can strike deals and drop out of strategic constituencies) means that short of an utterly overwhelming sweep, any declarations of a RN victory should be treated as propaganda calculated to induce despair.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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The AP identified at least 60 Palestinian families where at least 25 people were killed — sometimes four generations from the same bloodline — in bombings between October and December

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Anthony Moser's avatar Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.bsky.social
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A lot of violence is impersonal: pressing buttons, dropping bombs, denying claims. Not this. They ziptied people's hands and threw them into the sea. Loaded families into deflating rafts. Murder, again and again. Abolish borders.

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio 's avatar Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social
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Day 17: Stuart Hall's "Essential Essays: Volumes 1 & 2". Hall's essays are bite size & packed w/ insights on race, racism, colonialism, empire, and cultural phenomena. A not well known fact was that he initially wanted to be a medievalist but was dissuaded due to gatekeeping. 🧶

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio 's avatar Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social
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Day 15: "Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life" by Habiba Ibrahim. Award winning, beautifully written exploration of what it means to be Black, discussing what Blackness is and it describes exclusion, suffering & reclamation. Paired up with "Summer Skies" mini skeins. 🧶

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Natee (they/them)'s avatar Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social
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Brontësaurus. Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014. Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓

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Ipsita  Chatterjea (she/her)'s avatar Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social
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#AmRel #SCOTUS
FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine was thrown out for standing, the decisions still advances the interests of white Christian nationalists & SCOTUS justices who want to eliminate reproductive medical care: birth control abortion & miscarriages There remains reading & work to do 🧵

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Robin Marty 's avatar Robin Marty @robinmarty.bsky.social
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this subject line is today's winner:

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Ipsita  Chatterjea (she/her)'s avatar Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social
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I had the honor & pleasure of being Rev Lawson's Teaching Assistant as a grad student at Vanderbilt. He was thoughtful, kind, grounded & strategic

He believed in the possibilities of multi-racial, multi-faith democracy: he believed in the work for a better world for all

apnews.com/article/jame...

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A massive thank you to all who attended, presented at or otherwise contributed to #IRUS. It was a fantastic two days that have gone by so quickly and been filled with learning, connections, laughter, reflection and friendships. Here's to #IRUS 2025. Thanks and goodnight.

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#IRUS Ashley Forgery, a master's student from Georgia State University, is presenting on her thesis work exploring the successes, ways and difficulties of existing authentically as a 'queer' autistic person within American evangelicalism (understood as multiple) through Tik Tok creations / content.

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#IRUS Sher Afghan Tareen is presenting on using Afeefa Sayeed's lenses to alleviate intensive concerns about parenting in the digital age that emerged, first, through the covid lockdown and now has spread further into other aspects of everyday life. The gendered aspect is centred through motherhood.

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#IRUS Matthew Pierce, an UG student from Middle Tennessee State University is presenting on "Transcending the Track: NASCAR as Implicit Religion Deconstruction." Alongside Implicit Religion, he is drawing upon religious deconstruction, deconversion and disaffiliation to explore the decline of fandom

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#IRUS Asmae Hadidi, an MA student from Georgia State University, is presenting on "Sufi Performance: an embodied component of knowledge". She is focusing on the role of the embodied experience as related to one of the goals of Sufi Islam to contemplate spiritual realities beyond simple faith.

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#IRUS Amanda Furiasse presents on "Biohacking the Soul: Cyberpunk and Religions Biomedical Futures" She notes cyberpunk imagines a world where technology is pervasive and intrusive. It shapes every aspect of existence whilst exacerbating social divides and marginalizing segments of the population

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#IRUS Rebeccca Sabatini is a PhD student at the University of Turin. Her presentation today is entitled "Exploring Cultural Heritage: Semantic Layering and Intensive Concerns." She is considering what negotiations make or allow aspects of cultural heritage to be considered or labelled 'religious'?

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#IRUS Dr George Gonzalez is delivering a workshop on the publication process in the US. He notes that key to successful publishing is tapping into your network, none of this is done alone. He emphasises it is very much relational.

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As #IRUS is intended for students, early career and independant scholars as well as marginalised scholars we intentionally build workshops into the programme that detail aspects of academic work and experiences not necessarily covered in all programmes, grad schools or hard to access

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#IRUS Camille Cassingham, an MA student from Georgia State University, is presenting on ways in which we might reimagine fat religion. That is, ask questions about how fat people (intentional term) draw upon religion for fat liberation, empowerment and to understand their embodied experiences.

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Our first panel speaker is Anna Wilde, a PhD student from the University of Birmingham (UK) speaking on Intensive Concerns within the Death Positive Movement. She is exploring if the culture of silence around death still exists today & critiquing some of the assumptions on who has a 'better' death.

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Megan Goodwin's avatar Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social
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Dr. Dromgoole's stuff is smart and y'all should check it out

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2024 #IRUS Dr Dromgoole notes that Intensive and Intimate are often intertwined, especially for Black women performers, to such an extent that legends such as The Clark Sisters remain surprised by the level of research and dedication to their back catalogues and lives.

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The 2024 #IRUS conference begins at 4pm UK time / 10am CST time. We look forward to seeing those of you who are registered for the keynote, and hope those unable to make it this time will be able to join another year. The keynote will be lived posted, so follow along here.

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop's avatar Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social
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BOOK CLUB
9 June 2024.

Not at available at your local bookstore?
Easier "to read"if you can multi-task just a little?

Secrets, Lies and Consequences is available as an Audio Book: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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PSA: Listen to your Digital Humanities Developers/IT Folk Seriously, listen to them. Please.

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Dr Will Wyeth's avatar Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social
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Breaking news from r/Scotland subreddit.

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Dr_F_Stewart (She/her)'s avatar Dr_F_Stewart (She/her) @drfstewart.bsky.social
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Hell yes it would. Can we please have pinned posts next.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)'s avatar Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social
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Let me be clear: the admin sent an email to the DU community last night that essentially invited a mob to harass & assault the encampment students. It was either willful incompetence or malignancy. Either way, we were shown that our administration has no will or ability to keep our campus safe.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)'s avatar Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social
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Historic night at DU. A community came together to defend our students against an admin that was tone deaf and a drunk mob of counter protesters that tried repeatedly to instigate violence. There were no cops and no campus safety. Just faculty and staff in neon yellow vests protecting students.

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Adam Bienkov's avatar Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The High Court rules that the Government's anti-protest legislation is unlawful, in a major victory for campaigners Liberty The Court found Suella Braverman had lowered the threshold for police to intervene to even cover protests with 'normal' levels of disruption.

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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday that he was seeking arrest warrants, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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The 46th Implicit Religion conference has concluded. A massive thank you to everyone who has taken part, as a presenter, an audience member, a discussant and especially to @msamrc.bsky.social for her fantastic Edward Bailey keynote lecture. Here's looking forward to next year. #IR46

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Octavio Carrasco is speaking on spirit dance as a form of resistance, and as this is a work in progress at a very early stage it will not be live posted. This is to protect the work and the scholar. #IR46

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Freddie Petersen is speaking on their UG dissertation project, Body Image and Eating Behaviours in Queer and Trans Populations. As Freddie is an UG they are delivering a scratch paper (audience provide support and suggestions not ask questions). They are not live posted to protect their work. #IR46

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The first paper of the panel is by @drfstewart.bsky.social who is speaking on cripping bodily legitimacy within Northern Irish punk. As this is myself it will not be live posted as I can't do both at the same time (yet). A summary will be posted afterwards as a thread to this post. #IR46

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Our final panel of #IR46 begins at 3pm (UK time). Looking forward to some exciting talks on punk rock, disability, queer body relationships and spirit dance.

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Our first presentation this morning is from Egle Murauskaite who is speaking on Reappropriating the Virgin Mary: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Art Discourse. As this is a doctoral dissertation in progress it will not be live posted to protect Egle's findings.

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Monique Moultrie is speaking on Centering Black Women: Sexual Agency and Faith Activism. In her work she is considering the message that is sent and what is done with that message by Black women within their lives and communities.

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Michael Jacobs's avatar Michael Jacobs @abogadomike.bsky.social
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Pro-Palestine activities at UChile in Santiago and no one is getting arrested or manhandled by police.

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#IR46 resumes with a presentation by @ichatterjea.bsky.social who is speaking on Sacrifice or Allocation?: group behaviours, agency, power and patriarchy. As this is a work in progress intended for publication the presentation will not be live posted.

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Ursula McKenna (read by Leslie Francis) is presenting the first paper of the panel, entitled: The inclusivity of Anglican Cathedrals and the Coronation of King Charles III: embracing explicit religion, civil religion and implicit religion. #IR46

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Natasha Gilani is now presenting her paper on "Blue Haired Women: Resilience and Activism amongst Queer Women in Pakistan. As this is a doctoral work in progress and not yet submitted to her university, it will not be live posted to protect her scholarship. #IR46

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