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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

JZ Smith, Map Is Not Territory (Chicago, 1993) Amy Deregotis, Moral Geographies: Maps, Missionaries and the American Frontier (Columbia, 2003) @econroykrutz.bsky.social Hierarchies of Heathenism: Missionaries Map the Globe, Diplomatic History 42.1 (2018)

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a must-read by @vox-magica.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com that sets the dismantling of their outstanding Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech in the broader context of the assault on the Humanities.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The university—especially the public university—has never been an “ivory tower,” but rather where we help create the public sphere we want to see in the world. Centering the public good means offering to our students the same robust intellectual environment their elite private-school peers enjoy."

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was not prepared for this day 😭 Dolly Parton fans: are we wearing butterflies while in mourning? 🦋

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The conflict between AI and accommodations is *the* pedagogical issue of the moment. But there's no real leadership on this. It's all delegated to faculty to work out on their own, with occasional assists (or resistance) from disability offices. It's untenable, terrible for both students + faculty.

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Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As @disabilitystor1.bsky.social observes, there's no institutional help--and this is coming from the faculty who *want* to support all students who need accommodations. Faculty need thought partners, but most disability offices are under-resourced and, ime, appear baffled by faculty frustrated w/AI.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Seconded. I don’t think it’s a mystery why several journals in my field no longer have a backlog. There are several contributing factors, but one that deserves attention is how we are still in the wake of COVID impacts on scholarly pipelines. It’s been one 6-year t&p cycle if you started fall 2020

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“Higher education, and the press that reports on it, both tend to look disproportionately at the Ivies for guidance and leadership. But the Ivies don’t represent the circumstances and conditions at the vast majority of institutions in this country….”

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Tomorrow (May 22) at 6:00 pm EDT, Judson Memorial Church welcomes @wmstell.bsky.social, author of Born Again Queer. He'll discuss his history of the rise and fall of evangelical gay activism, shining a light on this largely forgotten chapter in American evangelicalism. Learn more: buff.ly/GtWaEMm

Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity by William Stell

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's not brainstorming if you don't use your brain to do it.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

AND further evidence of confusion about what teaching (and even knowledge) actually is. Knowledge is NOT a synonym for information. Teaching is not just communicating information.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 13/04/2026

There has to be some interesting philosophy about how the Internet is both forever, and also a remarkably fragile storage medium for knowledge and history.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Super weird that broad bipartisan support for violently crushing student protest was effective. Really makes you think

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Yes, and this pattern pre-dates MAGA by 200+ years religious liberty in the US has consistently made assumptions about “good” religion (deserving of religious freedom) & “bad” religion (those that aren’t bc they are perceived as “foreign,” coercive, or incompatible with democracy) We see that here

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Girls be like “I needed this” and it’s @kkdumez.bsky.social historicizing white Christian women.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

And this, my friends, is why we will always need to study the Humanities. The human condition don’t quit.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Almost as unpleasant as watching people newly interested in the phenomenon they didn’t see coming writing and being cited over the highly knowledgeable people who did.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It was only 20 years ago that specialists in the history of US foreign policy began to take religion seriously* in foreign relations. Before that the consensus was religion was at best a “side issue.” So if you’re now on board, don’t forget to cite who taught you what is “obvious” now *YMMV

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Just like the goal for the elite is to accumulate wealth without labor (various forms of extraction and exploitation), the goal here is to accumulate “knowledge” without thinking (also various forms of extraction and exploitation)

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“AI is the future” The future:

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Seems like lots of people are discovering ideas about a “family” or “household” vote as a sign Christian nationalism. As w/much of CN discourse, historians of women’s history did the work 30+ years ago See Elna Green’s Southern Strategies (UNC 1997), uncpress.org/978080784641...

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Southern Strategies

The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Green’s study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South. Green’s compreh...

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’m also very much looking forward to visiting the @uvmvermont.bsky.social next week for a book talk on "Martyrs and Migrants" @nyupress.bsky.social. Here are the details: Date: Tuesday, March 3 Time: 3:30–5:00 PM Location: Lafayette 210 If you are in the area, I’d love to see you there.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“it is heartbreaking to report on this news knowing how impactful these classes can be for students not only in the major, but also students who have taken classes as general education requirements or electives.”

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This “debate” about Claude’s selfhood just might be a reflection of how there actually isn’t consensus on “human” …a topic often explored in HUMANITIES classes

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Age verification? I called a number I memorized to learn what the weather forecast was for the day.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Bouie rightly compares Trump with Wilson but what we often overlook with both is that their racism (devotion to white superiority) is inseparable from their commitment to patriarchy. Beyond “men as leaders” patriarchy here means men as sovereigns— the legitimate political authority over all others

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yes x 1000. I told my editors that all of the LLM drama came for romance (thanks to the Amazon marketplace) over a decade ago. Every iteration after that has been the same cycle over and over again. Can’t get serious people to treat it seriously, however, because it’s about women’s economic activity

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Patricia Matthew and her contributors already explained how all faculty don’t have the same job (Written/Unwritten [2016]), but it’s about to be more transparent based where you work (not just your title and rank)

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Thank you for contacting the void. How may we direct your scream?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2026

you personally have the ability to secure elections for yourself and your neighbors.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

There are at least 2 things here that humanities-based Religion scholars do well & can help students do too: 1. Analyze competing religious claims (Pope Leo vs Johnson’s Christianity) 2. Analyze Christian secularism(s) Poll data doesn’t help the public figure out what to do here

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It’s shaping up to be quite the day in Iowa education news. 3 stories worth your time even if you’re not in Iowa There’s the Republican gubernatorial debate 👇which has all candidates seeking to target teacher training/higher education as a blueprint for attacking “leftist indoctrination” 1/

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/01/2026

NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week. It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE

(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

So much to explore and analyze when it comes to religion, Jan 6, and our memories of it. @miketheprofessor.bsky.social and @petermanseau.bsky.social did us all a service by creating the Uncivil Religion digital resource. uncivilreligion.org/home/about-t...

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Uncivil Religion: About Uncivil Religion

A collaborative digital resource

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If you, like me, will be talking about celebrity culture and religion this spring with students, I suggest checking out: Kathryn Lofton’s “Sacrificing Britney” in Consuming Religion (Chicago, 2017) as one way to get at these themes.

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

RIP #MTV which I featured for the first time in American Religious Diversity this year to talk about the Tibetan Freedom concerts. A rich text of religion, politics, youth culture, and consumerism. youtu.be/2z-po-l-pVc?...

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Beastie Boys HD : Tibetan Freedom Concert Footage - 1996

YouTube video by Porkys1982 👊

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It's time for @laurenfturek.bsky.social & I to celebrate the book birthday for The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775! 44 chapters, 48 contributors representing both History & Religious Studies www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... 1/n

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The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States Since 1775

Drawing together history and recent historiography, this volume offers a reference work for understanding how religion influenced politics and how politics shaped religion in the United States from th...

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I'm teaching a course called "The Bible and Misinformation" next semester. The course will focus on information literacy skills, using the Bible as a focus. What topics would you consider the most interesting/relevant to include?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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