American Religions at Stanford @argcstanford

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

362 Followers | 156 Following | 16 Posts | Joined: 02.10.2023 | 1.6164

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Screenshot of the title and banner image for Chanhee Heo’s Religion Dispatches article on “Charlie Kirk Memorial in Seoul”

Check out this important and insightful piece by @argcstanford.bsky.social alumna @chanheeheo.bsky.social on @religiondispatches.org:

30.09.2025 20:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

Congratulations to @chanheeheo.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation, “Thy Kin-dom Come: Imagining the First Christian Nation in the East,” today! 🎉

04.06.2025 00:51 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

A moving concert and conversation tonight between Dr. Julian Saporiti (No-No Boy) and @chanheeheo.bsky.social. Full recording will be posted to argc.stanford.edu

10.05.2025 06:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"Race, Religion, and Asian American Studies" Panel

It’s been a minute since ARGC put on this panel on “Race, Religion, Asian American Studies” with Melissa Borja, Jonathan Tran, and @kginlum.bsky.social, moderated by @chanheeheo.bsky.social, but we finally got the recording up!

Check it out at argc.stanford.edu/research-pro...

08.05.2025 23:22 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Scenes from a beautiful event on curanderismo with Atava Garcia Swiecicki, Batul True Heart, and Melissa Reyes. Thanks to ARGC PhD candidate Jeffrey Sánchez for putting this together!

08.05.2025 23:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to @argcstanford.bsky.social student @chanheeheo.bsky.social on receiving a @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship! 🎉

15.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ARGC is delighted to present “Singing Asian American History,” a live music concert by No-No Boy in conversation with @chanheeheo.bsky.social. Join us! May 9, 6pm PST, free and open to the public. RSVP here: forms.gle/tk76grabH5So...

22.03.2025 23:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Burning Questions: On Collecting the Stuff of Latinx/e Religion by Jeffrey Sanchez I often visit my family in Texas during the sticky, hot, and humid summer months. Though it may be close to suffocatingly hot, the only place hotter (both literally and figurativ…

Check out this lovely reflection by @argcstanford.bsky.social graduate student Jeffrey Sánchez in *Collecting Religion*: “Candles are ephemeral and made to be disposed of after use, but they also leave ‘stuff’ behind.”

collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...

19.03.2025 17:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Happening now!

29.01.2025 00:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A flyer for a panel on religion and the 2024 election

Open to the public!

Religion and the 2024 Election
Tuesday January 28, 4:30pm PT
In person and on Zoom

15.01.2025 21:13 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Wonderful conversation with @benjaminepark.bsky.social about his brand-new book, #AmericanZion, academic vs trade writing, and more—thank you for joining us!

13.03.2024 00:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

So grateful to the amazing Eziaku Nwokocha for spending the day with us @argcstanford. We love _Vodou en Vogue_!

16.02.2024 17:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful to be in conversation with @argcstanford.bsky.social alumnus @rhcraig.bsky.social about his moving new book, Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner (Eerdmans). Congratulations, Ralph!

08.12.2023 04:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Congratulations to @argcstanford alumnus @RalphCraigIII on the publication of DANCING IN MY DREAMS: such a fantastic book!

24.10.2023 03:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starting the new school year in conversation with the brilliant Dr. Lloyd Barba. Thank you for sharing your amazing work with us!

02.10.2023 23:43 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So excited to welcome this year’s esteemed guests!

02.10.2023 23:37 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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Spaces of Hope
@spacesofhope

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Maia Kotrosits
@maiakotro

https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Soon: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke, 2025). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago, 2020).

Chris Cantwell
@cdc29

Religious History | Public History | Digital History Assistant Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
@riccardiswartz

assistant prof of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. first gen. book w/ Fordham University Press. current projects: trad futurisms/digital dissidents.

anthony petro
@apetro

Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025) After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015) https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro

Neil J. Young
@neiljyoung

Writer & historian of US religion, politics, and culture. New book: COMING OUT REPUBLICAN: A HISTORY OF THE GAY RIGHT (2024). Los Angeles. http://tinyurl.com/8vps3y82

Irene Oh
@ireneoh

Religion Professor @GWU What am I *not* interested in? is the better question... Author: What is Religious Ethics? | The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights & Comparative Ethics Editor: Journal of Religious Ethics Honolulu - Washington, DC

Matt Hedstrom
@matthedstrom

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.

Theological Studies @ SLU
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The Saint Louis University Department of Theological Studies is a community of faculty and students committed to learning, justice, and empathy.

Brandon Bayne
@bbayne

Historian | Religious Studies | Indigenous Studies | UNC Chapel Hill

Omri Elisha
@omrielisha

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.

Bud Heckman
@budheckman

Guiding nonprofits & foundations. Leading in Interfaith & Climate Action. Press, speech, religion, petition, & assembly. Funding, comms, & strategy. Empathy, community, action. interreligious.org

Darrius D’wayne Hills
@ddhrelprof1984

N. Fadeke Castor
@spiritcitizen

Black feminist ethnographer, African diaspora religions scholar, 💜 Ifá, Egbe & Orisa, Trini, author of award-winning Spiritual Citizenship (Duke 2017), YNWA https://www.fadekecastor.com/

Thomas Tweed
@tomtweed

Historian of religion. Author of Crossing and Dwelling (Harvard); 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

Candace Lukasik
@clukasik

Assistant Professor of Religion at Mississippi State University | “Martyrs and Migrants” NYU Press | “Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity” Fordham UP | religion, migration, violence, empire www.candacelukasik.com

Modern
@johnmodern

Writer, teacher, editor, producer, aging hipster….currently writing a book on Akron, OH and another one on the secret history of artificial intelligence. [www.johnmodern.com]

Tazeen M. Ali
@tazeenmali

scholar of islam & gender in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own

Stephen Prothero
@sprothero

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.