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Gary Adler

@garyadler.bsky.social
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Sociologist of culture, religion, civil society, and law. Love mixing the methods. @PSUsoccrim Current project: religion-state relations and local government. scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&… *Views expressed are my own*

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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 12h
Interested in the sociology of religion, law, and government? Pair yesterday's great law article about the "re-establishment of religion" in law(lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...) with our sociological work about what religion-state interaction looks like in practice. Try these....
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 13h
What is the public relevance of religion? We (@jonathancoley.bsky.social @mayrl.bsky.social and non-blueskyers) have thoughts coming out in @amjsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/744185
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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
John Levi Martin's detailed methodological critique of the "Rubin report" about sociology probably should be required reading for all sociologists. Well worth your time. One take-away is maybe our internal disciplinary fractiousness has some good sides. 1/ osf.io/preprints/so...
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My university became shockingly corporatized over the past five years, so our faculty organized and, today, won a union. In an era when democracy is under attack, our faculty fought to bring democracy into the workplace. www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...
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We Won!!!
Thousands of Penn State Faculty Vote to Join SEIU Local 668.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Tonight! I'll be talking about Catholics in government. We're on Zoom....details below if you'd like to join.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Research + teaching + student = great partnership. Also why I love my job @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Keep an eye on @ienesatac.bsky.social! It was a fun weekend at @sssreligion.bsky.social
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/07/2025
Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino took the extraordinary step of formally excusing parishioners in his diocese from the obligation of attending mass weekly - because of the possibility immigration officers would seize people coming to or from church.
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A Religious Rebellion Against Mass Deportation
American Christians are showing increasing discomfort with Trump’s signature policy.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Big news on the "Johnson Amendment" (!, ?) A collapse of the wall between church and state? A new plank in the floor of religious liberty? Observations from a sociologist of religion.... I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
One cool trick to increasing trust in elections and government: make everyone a public official. Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Confidence in elections among U.S. local officials: Effects of social trust, partisanship and political ambition
The U.S. public’s confidence in elections is intensively studied in the last decade but little is known about election confidence among locally elected officials, whose roles and community status may ...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 27/06/2025
Read the piece to learn about how: · USCCB fracturing over advocacy is a big deal, signaling just how much Trump/GOP's policies have pushed bishops · It's a slow-burn result of Francis-aligned clerics finding a voice outside the USCCB · It all adds to widespread religious opposition to Trump
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Deep dive into Pope Leo's immigrant roots and racial identity. The type of story that is being purposefully erased in the US today. Pope Leo XIV’s link to Haiti is part of a broader American story of race, citizenship and migration theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv...
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Pope Leo XIV’s link to Haiti is part of a broader American story of race, citizenship and migration
Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Want to know why being the name Leo 14 is such a big deal? Look was Leo 13 was up to.... www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) | LEO XIII
Encyclical Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII, 15 May 1891
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
ICE agents are lawless, sociopathic shitbirds. Treat every one you encounter accordingly.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 25/04/2025
Dugan, the judge recently arrested by the FBI on allegations of helping an undocumented immigrant avoid ICE arrest, is also a former executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...
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What to know about Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge at center of ICE arrest investigation
Dugan spent a large swath of her career working for the poor, first with legal aid organizations and then as executive director of Catholic Charities.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Rest in peace, Pope Francis, master of symbolism... -First "Francis" pope: rebuilder of the Church -First words as Pope: "I am a sinner..." -Eschewed papal apartment for Vatican's "guest house" -Favorite metaphor: The church as field hospital
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
An incredible final message from Pope Francis: "to run like Mary Magdalene and the disciples" "We must take action, set out to look for him: look for him in life, look for him in the faces of our brothers and sisters, look for him in everyday business, look for him everywhere except in the tomb."
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social is cordially invited to stick up for PSU students whose degrees and research are being destroyed www.presidentsalliance.org/press/eighty...
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Eighty-Six Institutions and Associations Lead the Presidents’ Alliance’s Filing of Amicus Brief Challenging Visa Revocations and Detentions - Presidents' Alliance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 10, 2025 CONTACT: press@presidentsalliance.org Eighty-Six Institutions and Associations Lead the Presidents’ Alliance’s Filing of Amicus Brief Challenging Visa Revocations...
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
BIG 10's Rutgers and Michigan State working against "ideological deportation" in legal filing. Let's go @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Empathy in the news a bit. Time to plug my book about the ups and downs of producing, especially for migrants. www.amazon.com/Empathy-Beyo...
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Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics) [Adler Jr, Gary J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Postponed until fallish 2025... my talk about how local Catholic elected officials in the US. oppose Christian nationalism and support religious pluralism. uwaterloo.ca/st-jeromes/e...
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Lectures in Catholic Experience presents Dr. Gary J. Adler Jr. | St. Jerome's University
Information on St. Jerome's University Lecture's in Catholic Experience event.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Prayers for @pontifexes.bsky.social
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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Dang, Pope scooping me. Not m(any) integralist natural law Catholics among local officials in the US. I'll share the goods when visiting with @camacgregor.bsky.social at uwaterloo.ca/st-jeromes/e...
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Lectures in Catholic Experience presents Dr. Gary J. Adler Jr. | St. Jerome's University
Information on St. Jerome's University Lecture's in Catholic Experience event.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Contra the "integralist" and anti-democratic spate of Catholic theoretical arguments, I'll give a ground-level view of what Catholic officials really think about pluralism and church-state separation. (Hint: they support both.)
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I just called (the same) House member's office as @djvanness.bsky.social to let them know that my federal grant funding helps undergrads and grads go to PSU, pay for housing, eat, etc. The staffer responded, "Yeah, we've been getting A LOT of phone calls this morning about this." More calls pls
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Pretty good evidence that the best way to understand the Catholic Church in the U.S. is not by watching/listening to those with the loudest, most traditionalist megaphone. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...
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Pope Names Robert McElroy, an Ally on Immigration, as Cardinal in Washington
The appointment of Robert W. McElroy is a signal of the pope’s priorities, two weeks before Donald J. Trump’s term begins.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Lots of new folks finding the bluesky. In that spirit, I've deactivated my account on the other place.
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Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
I’m thrilled to share that my first academic publication is out @sfjournal.bsky.social In this paper, with @garyadler.bsky.social, we analyze religious identity and behavior over time to analyze the secularization question in Turkey. 1/n academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey
Abstract. We distinguish two streams of theory that dominate explanations of religious change: cohort-based cumulative decline theory, which emphasizes sma
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Sociologists tackle religious freedom. Take a quick tour of the latest sociological research on religious freedom, its meanings, its uses, and its future. I'll be sharing insights from my research with @jonathancoley.bsky.social @mayrl.bsky.social, rebecca sager, and eric plutzer.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Sociologists tackle religious freedom. Take a quick tour of the latest sociological research on religious freedom, its meanings, its uses, and its future. I'll be sharing insights from my research with @jonathancoley.bsky.social @mayrl.bsky.social, rebecca sager, and eric plutzer.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Popular strategies schools and local govts use for holidays pluralism (do em all!), neg secularism (allow em all) pos secularism (do none!) transformative secularism (do em but with new names). Harvest Fest? Full on transforming the medieval peasant experience.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Managing Halloween....My kid's school nixed it in favor of a Harvest Fest," which, I assure you, is not well ritualized in my university town. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/l...
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Local government officials in the US love Christmas trees in public holiday displays. We've got the data and the explanation.
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Talking the state and religion today at SSSR Conference Meeting Info - Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (sssreligion.org)
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Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
It's me. garyadlerjr on that other site. Here now and looking forward to it!
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