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SORAAAD "Reestablishing Religion" A Conversation with Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman, & Nelson Tebbe Religion, Authoritarianism, & Public Narratives - Part 4 18 August 2025

Monday 18 Aug 2025
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"Reestablishing Religion" A Conversation w/ @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social

Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives prt 4

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Book Cover, Background image late antiquity mosaic tiles in an intertwined pattern. Cambridge Elements: Religion in Late Antiquity Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature Shaily Shashikant Patel.

It's HERE! It arrived!

Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature by @vox-magica.bsky.social arrived today!

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

Join us in signing and sharing this petition to prevent layoffs of over 400 people (both academic & professional services staff) at Lancaster University. We are all at risk and it's a scary time.

US memo allows federal employees to evangelise colleagues at work Memo permits religious persuasion at work if non-harassing, likening it to encouraging other personal activities.

According to the memo, "workers may engage in “attempting to persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views” as long as “such efforts are not harassing in nature”.

This clears the way for Federal Government offices to serve as mission fields.

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The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social ✨50th anniv issue✨ abt past, present, & future of 🇯🇵 religious studies is out!

🙏Paul Swanson, Hayashi Makoto, Kawahashi Noriko, Keller Kimbrough, Emi Foulk Bushelle, @orionklautau.bsky.social @jolyonbt.bsky.social @aikerots.bsky.social

Table of contents for the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies volume 51, number 2. "Half a Century of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (2024). Articles 119 Editors’ Introduction Half a Century of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies Matthew D. McMullen, Paul L. Swanson, and Kaitlyn Ugoretz 125 The Study of Japanese Religions Past, Present, and Future Reflections on the History of the jjrs Paul L. Swanson 135 The jjrs and the Study of Japanese Religions Hayashi Makoto 145 A Feminist Religion Scholar’s Tribute to the jjrs and nirc Kawahashi Noriko 151 Buddhism in Medieval Japanese Fiction Personal Reflections R. Keller Kimbrough 171 Speech, Text, and Reality Kokugaku and the Buddhist Roots of Japanese Philology Emi Foulk Bushelle 197 The Politics of Essence Towards a History of the Public Study of Buddhism in 1880s Japan Orion Klautau 221 Why Teach Religion? Scholars of Religion and Education Policy in Postwar Japan Jolyon Baraka Thomas 253 Crossing Boundaries Rethinking “Japanese Religion” in the Anthropocene Aike P. Rots

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MAGA Superintendent Who Put Bibles in Schools Faces Porn Investigation Ryan Walters reportedly played porn during an official meeting.

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Religion in the U.S.

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Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion Seven centuries of lost historical records covering espionage, political corruption and the lives of ordinary people in Ireland have been recovered and are being released. A pioneering project to fill gaps in Irish history is making 175,000 more records and millions more words of searchable content freely available to researchers and members of the public. Continue reading...

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

So, this isn't your fault, but this is a specious fucking argument that offends me to my core.

The people who can earn more in industry and choose to teach on the side make up a FRACTION of the adjunct population and are generally not the subject of the very serious problems of adjunctification.

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

This is really interesting technology with a lot of cool potential that's actually being slowly and thoughtfully tested for safety. I do worry, however, that it could further reify social attitudes about nonspeaking people, with the expectation that if you can't voice, you should get this implant.

A screenshot from the UK National Archives website. STATISTICS: Religious Creeds of Inmates of Prisons. Reference: HO 45/10424/R328. Description: STATISTICS: Religious Creeds of Inmates of Prisons. Date: 1906 Held by: the national archives. Kew. Former reference in its original department: R328. Legal status: public records. Closure status: open document, open description.

Throwing a Hail Mary here… I know this is a long shot but, has anyone got a copy/photos of this? I’m an (American) independent researcher & need it for a research project. #AcademicSky #Sociology

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the talk: “Money and Moral Injury: the Implicit Religion of Squid Game.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Octavio Carrasco. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Our first panel for #IR47 is opened by Octavio Carrasco, who is presenting on "Money and Moral Injury: the Implicit Religion of Squid Game." He is exploring the implicit religion of money as an image and also the system of capitalism as a form of implicit religion using Squid Game as an example.

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the talk: “Beyond Prediction: AI, Religious Ethics, and the Urban Imagination.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Amanda Furiasse. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Amanda Furiasse on "Beyond Prediction: Al, Religious Ethics, and the Urban Imagination." Exploring how AI & urban planning often reflect extensive effects where efficiency, control & prediction are valued more than creativity and ethics. #IRUS

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the workshop: “Networking (how to make ‘friends’ and influence people).” Below that is the name of the speakers, George Gonzalez and Francis Stewart. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Up next for #IRUS we have George Gonzales and @drfstewart.bsky.social delivering a workshop on how to network, focusing on personal approaches to networks, being effective without exhausting yourself, networking as an introvert, UK / US differences and how to recover from networking.

A plain purple background. Along the top of the image is a grey banner with the words, "2025 Implicit Religion US Keynote" written on it. Underneath that banner is a colour photograph of the speaker, Dr Angela Sutton, with her name written underneath her image. Next to the image is the title of Dr Sutton's talk: "Beyond the Limits of an Extensive Effects Framework." Underneath the image and title is another grey banner with the conference theme written on it. The theme is "Extensive Effects". In the bottom right hand corner is further information about the keynote, May 29, 2025, Online US CST. In the left hand corner is the Implicit Religion logo.

The extensive effects framework is an elegant way to reveal the interconnected nature of human experiences & their far reaching impacts on social structures & systems of power. But, there's significant challenges in establishing clear causal links in a phenomena & their extensive effects. #IR47

That's why it's only white people who tell Black people to stop living in the past / get over slavery, as if the tendrils of slavery don't reach into the present. For many whites they don't, because we've created the discipline of history in such a way that we don't have to see the tendrils. #IR47

The history of Blackness in America is the history of the right to exist alongside everyone else in the future. For Black America, past, present & future continually exist at the same time. #IR47

A plain purple background. Along the top of the image is a grey banner with the words, "2025 Implicit Religion US Keynote" written on it. Underneath that banner is a colour photograph of the speaker, Dr Angela Sutton, with her name written underneath her image. Next to the image is the title of Dr Sutton's talk: "Beyond the Limits of an Extensive Effects Framework." Underneath the image and title is another grey banner with the conference theme written on it. The theme is "Extensive Effects". In the bottom right hand corner is further information about the keynote, May 29, 2025, Online US CST. In the left hand corner is the Implicit Religion logo.

Humans continuously seek new ways of finding meaning, understanding the world, & making commitments. These things in turn take on lives of their own and shape the world we live in, in our collective futures. Which is a really threatening prospect if we let them remain unconscious and unnamed. #IR47

History, Society & culture are constructions that continually evolve, adapt, & renegotiate themselves, especially as we name them. Bailey's concept of implicit religion suggests that the search for meaning in life is not at the hinge of post/modernism. Nor is it dictated by religion. #IR47

Pirates of the Slave Trade - Prometheus Books No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fier...

West Africa had brought the slave trade to a standstill, and the fanatical British naval captain Challoner Ogle tasked with their eradication to preserve the trade. #IR47

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@drangelasutton.bsky.social book is about the 1722 Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of Gabon in West Africa. The culmination of a years long cat & mouse chase between the fleet of Golden Age pirates whose marauding in

Pirates came from all nations, colonies, ethnicities, genders. Every empire or proto empire & their national trading companies were concerned about the problem. This generated many boxes in the National Archives of each of these countries of complaints & debates on what to do about pirates. #IR47

People being overworked & underpaid. Little rest until their broken bodies eventually gave out, a built in function of late stage capitalism. Therefore structural, yet we describe it as individualised & shift the blame & burden onto individuals & creating so-called solutions or punishments. #IR47

Thinking of piracy as an individualised phenomenon: people deciding to become a pirate, as people decide to become a dentist, rather than a structural or collective phenomenon, shows society being organised in such a way that piracy becomes the only option for survival for swaths of people. #IR47