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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
10:00-11:30 AM CST | -6 UTC
"Reestablishing Religion" A Conversation w/ @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social

Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives prt 4

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The government demands answers about Palestine chants at Glastonbury.

Meanwhile, a large section of the public demands answers about UK support for the genocide.

I just want to tell a little story for you academics out there, especially the ones younger and more viral than I. I've published 3 books and an Element in my time, so I've been through that part of the process a lot. And here's something that happened already with my second book:

a man in a black and white sweater is standing in a living room and says `` seriously thanks so much '' . Alt: A gif from the television show Schitt's Creek. A man (character: David Rose) in a black and white sweater is standing in a living room and says `` seriously thanks so much '' whilst walking away from an unseen person.

And now the 2025 Implicit Religion US Conference comes to a close. It has been a fantastic two days of conversation, discussion, learning and friendship. It always goes far too quickly. Thanks to all the presenters. Thank you to @drangelasutton.bsky.social for her incredible keynote.

To 2026!

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the talk: “ An Intersection of Crises: Christian Nationalist Exploitation of the COVID Pandemic.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Darlene McLeod. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Our final presentation is by Darlene McLeod, a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. She is speaking on alt-right and Christian nationalist protests, focusing on the Christian Nationalist exploitation of the Covid-19 pandemic through rhetoric's on victimhood and combat narratives.

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the talk: “Psychologically Kidnapped!: Secular Deprogramming the Category of Cult, and Fear of Social Change.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Jacques Parker. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Jacques Parker, a masters student at UCSB is presenting on his work on deprogramming in relation to the category of cult and a fear of social change with a focus on how cases in which the deprogramming was motivated by homophobia, partially or in full and therefore included sexual assault and rape.

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the workshop: “Religious Trauma and Epistemic Injustice: The Self-Representation of Autistic Ex-Evangelica’s Negative Religious Experiences as Authoritative and Valuable.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Ashley Alderman Forgey. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Ashley Forgey now speaking on the growing recognition that religious beliefs & practises results in long lasting trauma offers new avenues for understanding the human experience. Mapping ex-evangelical Autistic people generating their own discourse about religious experience / trauma.

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the talk: “Daughter Houses: An Oral History of a Dominican Convent.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Julianna Roseland. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

Julianna Roseland, an UG student at NCSU is presenting on her work amongst Daughter Houses as a means of following Implicit Religion's capacity to help researchers listen to whispers over shouts. her presentation is titled " Daughter Houses: An Oral History of a Dominican Convent."

A plain purple background. Across the image is the title of the talk: “SORAAAD at Implicit Religion: Chaos v Developing and Sustaining a Qualitative Research and Writing Practice.” Below that is the name of the speaker, Ipsita Chatterjea. Along the bottom is a white banner with the theme of the conference: Extensive Effects.

The second day of the IR US conference opens with a workshop by @ichatterjea.bsky.social the executive director of @soraaad.bsky.social. Her workshop is entitled "Chaos v Developing & Sustaining a Qualitative Research & Writing Practice" focusing on the transition from student to writer / author.

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. 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 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. 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

www.prometheusbooks.com/978163388844...

@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

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 Keynote by @drangelasutton.bsky.social begins by noting that once you start to see how books are constructed, you cannot unsee it. When deciding what you should do, collecting a wide sample of stories of what others did can help you understand and make a more productive start.

A purple block tile. In the middle is a white banner which reads "Extensive Effects", the theme of the conference. In the bottom right hand corner is details about the conference: 29 - 30 may 2025, Online, US-CST. In the bottom left hand corner is the Implicit Religion logo.

Our annual Implicit Religion US conference starts very soon. Keynote by @drangelasutton.bsky.social (pirates, causation, oh my), workshops will be delivered by @soraaad.bsky.social and by Dr George Gonzalez & @drfstewart.bsky.social. Presenters talks will be promoted but details will not be shared.

Starting at 10:30 am CST, I've been looking forward to @drangelasutton.bsky.social 's Keynote for IR US 2025.

*Pirates*. and. *causation*. in. the. same. talk?!

It’s unclear exactly what policy Rubio is announcing in this tweet, but a broad ban on Chinese student visas could be a crisis for Higher Ed and U.S.-China relations.

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.

IR US conference keynote is open to all. Delivered by Dr Angela Sutton, entitled "Beyond the limits of an Extensive Effects Framework" & on her new book "Pirates of the Slave Trade."
Keynote is free, online at 10:45 - 12 CST on 29th May.
Register to attend: www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/sele...

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

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.

IR US conference keynote is open to all. Delivered by Dr Angela Sutton, entitled "Beyond the limits of an Extensive Effects Framework" & on her new book "Pirates of the Slave Trade."
Keynote is free, online at 10:45 - 12 CST on 29th May.
Register to attend: www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/sele...

The N Irish punk one is me @drfstewart.bsky.social, the keynote was delivered by Dr Monique Moultrie. I'll ask Dr Moultrie if she's happy to have the keynote posted. I'm happy to share mine. I'm on annual leave this week so it will take a little while. Drop me a DM if I forget to update you.