@kginlum.bsky.social
Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
extremely true
we wrote a whole book about it!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
The more things change… here’s the VP proving that paganism remains a useful foil for a certain vision of American “civilization”:
“it is about whether we will remain a civilization under God, or whether we ultimately return to the paganism that dominated the past”
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I need you all to understand something for those of you who think you know what this black woman who has lived in racist America really thinks. I know this is hard for you all, but some of us saw this coming for years, decades even. So understand, I am not being snarky. I am grieving.
24.01.2026 21:25 — 👍 1273 🔁 257 💬 20 📌 19I think we’re having an Outlook outage right now, sorry!
22.01.2026 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m so glad, and would love to hear more about your work on hell!
22.01.2026 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Just saw this. Glad to bring a little hell to your holidays
22.01.2026 20:35 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0❤️
22.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0time to signal boost @kginlum.bsky.social's awesome book again
religiondispatches.org/2024/11/20/p...
Free and open to the public: a talk featuring Prof. R. Marie Griffith: “BANKRUPT: Power, Abuse, and Trauma in American Christianity.” Feb 10, 4:30pm, Stanford Humanities Center. Please join us!
22.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Christmas puzzle complete! If only the #SFGiants off-season was this exciting…
27.12.2025 20:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Aspirational pile of books for the new academic year
25.08.2025 20:28 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Love this!
19.08.2025 22:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m teaching a grad seminar on American religion this semester, and am really excited to introduce my students to these phenomenal books.
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What it feels like to watch the #SFGiants these days 😅😭
@schulzmuseum.bsky.social
In 1914 Ford Motor Company established the Ford English School, where the automaker's diverse immigrant employees could learn the English language and take civics lessons in preparation for becoming U.S. citizens. At the graduation ceremony, students wearing clothing from their native countries descended into a large "American Melting Pot" and emerged wearing homogenous suits and waving American flags.
On July 4, 1917, Henry Ford’s English School held its graduation. Immigrant workers in native dress descended from a mock steamship into a giant cauldron marked “Melting Pot” and emerged in suits, waving US flags. Assimilation staged as public ritual.
Credit: The Henry Ford Collection, THF106481
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10.06.2025 03:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It has been such a privilege to work with @chanheeheo.bsky.social over the years and to see her work culminate in this important, evocative, and gorgeously written dissertation. Congratulations, Chanhee!
04.06.2025 00:59 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
had an amazing time learning more about @ahmadgreene.com's gorgeous new book!
religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...
now would be a great time for everybody to pick up a copy of @kginlum.bsky.social's *Heathen*
but in the meantime:
religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...
15.05.2025 15:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 📌 0It’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...
Writing is never wasted
19.04.2025 16:50 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0❤️
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So delighted for my brilliant advisee @chanheeheo.bsky.social and the fantastic group of postdocs starting at the @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social this fall!
rap.wustl.edu/news/jpostdo...
“…the justice which we mete out to others may in turn be administered to ourselves.”
From a book that’s 120 years old, but could well be about now.
The more things change…
A passage from a book advocating against Chinese exclusion
First time in the archives in a while. Came across this gem in a book advocating against Chinese exclusion.
“It is impossible to preserve the integrity of a government like ours if we deny to any class in our community the equal protection of the laws.”
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
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...
