David Feltmate

How I do Develop Theories Through My Research An explanation of how I develop and test theoretical concepts between major projects. This chapter is written to help scholars of religion and popular culture think about how they are making larger co...

I'm always surprised by this chapter, but it goes really well with the recent editorial I wrote for the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. I've been thinking a lot lately about the field and how we develop it.

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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Art history books IN Russian and Polish and Bulgarian. If you have an institution or library or university that wants that, that's AMAZING, would love to talk, but that's the big hurdle from here in northeast Missouri.

This whole thread is worthwhile.

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

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My sympathies and solidarity in this fight.

Rays at Yankees Boyle vs Fried

There are two ways to get your pierogi at Veselka

Sale Titles: Religion - NYU Press Browse All Titles Offer expires on 8/31/25.

60% off selected @nyupress.bsky.social books. Here's the list of Religion books on sale:
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We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

There is nothing to stop you from reaching out to them after the decision has been made and offer to collaborate in the future. I've done that.

"Reestablishing Religion" a Conversation with @richschragger.bsky.social , @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social , will take place Monday, 18 August from 10-11:30 am CST (-6 UTC) online.

Registration will Open July 8.

TIL there's a shrine in Kyoto dedicated to medicine deities that, besides the usual #kami suspects (Onamuchi no mikoto & Sukunabikona), enshrines the Chinese deity Shennong (not so strange) AND Hippocrates (v cool)! #globalshinto

Photo credit: Fred Cherrygarden
www.atlasobscura.com/places/yakus...

Don’t know if folks saw these CFPs from a new religion and pop culture series @davidfeltmate.bsky.social is editing, but check them out!

Thank you!

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the first CFPs in the Blackwell Series in Religion and Popular Culture. Please circulate widely and apply if they fit your interests. I am also happy to answer general questions about the series.

#religion #religiousstudies #MCU #Disney #popculture

Abstract: @drangelasutton.bsky.social will address the challenges of establishing clear causal links btwn a specific event/phenomenon& its extensive effects(&)the most
common methodological obstacles early career scholars face when applying this framework (&) offer up an interdisciplinary toolkit

Q&A with David Feltmate, Editor of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture" Meet David Feltmate, editor of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture," which is now published by UC Press.

UC Press is delighted to be the new publisher for the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture," which is edited by @davidfeltmate.bsky.social, who is the subject of a new Q&A on our blog. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

For independent and contingent #AcRel scholars:

Short-term visiting scholar program at Ohio State's Center for the Study of Religion. $3,000 stipend, lodging, travel, and meals for a week-long residency.

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Sing it

Especially if you cut out a wedge and stand it with the point going up.

#OnlineFirst My article “Moros y Cristianos Together?: The Politics of Death and Muslims in Spain” is already available at @EthnicitiesSAGE.

#NewPublication

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Not all heroes wear capes.

SORAAAD Book Club: Moyukh Chatterjee Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposuer and the Making of Minorities Religion, Authoritarianism, & Public Narratives - Part 3 Representation 13 April 2025

EVENT: SORAAAD Book Club
Composing Violence by Moyukh Chatterjee
Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives - Part 3
Sunday 13 April 2025
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM CST

@themodsisyphus.bsky.social & @ichatterjea.bsky.social will lead this discussion.

Register: soraaad.org

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.

Nope.

Christian friends. 1/x 🧵

This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

Chrissy has been leading the charge for Exvangelicals and is the voice I prefer to listen to and magnify.

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

I just got laid off from @vox.com along with 11 other talented and delightful people.

I'm leaving with a deep bench of sources and a million ideas. Editors assigning work on public health, health misinfo, corporate ints/religion in healthcare, please reach out!

Gonna go have cookies for lunch now

Extensive Effects (not depicted in the graphic - this is the Implicit Religion US Conference theme) Implicit Religion Logo 29-30 May 2025 Online CST

CFP IR US: The Call for Papers for 2025 Implicit Religion Conference, "Extensive Effects" is now posted.

@drangelasutton.bsky.social will deliver the Keynote Lecture.

CFP DEADLINE 17 March 2025.

CFP: www.implicitreligion.co.uk/ir-us/implic...

CFP PDF: cdn.prod.website-files.com/616453adbf9f...

#IR47's theme is taken from “Hidden Histories: Faith & Black Lesbian Leadership” Moultrie...argues including & fronting, sexual identity is essential to understanding the leadership styles & experiences of those who live at the intersections of race, class & gender oppression & sexual invisibility