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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Morning and afternoon walks in the Catskills yesterday. Perfect late summer weather.

A meadow in the Catskill mountains, and a dog walking.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I took this photo of a drawing by a woman and her young daughter in Union Square on September 13, 2001. I made a webpage with more images from that day for my seminar on "Religious Worlds of NY," which had been scheduled to meet for the first time that afternoon. www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/me...

A drawing of figures of people, some in color, some in black and white and holding hands. Two blank columns represent the World Trade Center Towers. On the bottom of the drawing it reads: WE ARE STILL STANDING.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So happy for Taylor Townsend’s #USOpen win to make the round of 16. I got to sit court side for her 2nd round match on Wednesday.

Taylor Townsend serving at a tennis match.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Submitted for publication by @uchicagopress.bsky.social in Fall 2027. Many thanks to @ahmadgreene.com for initiating the project and overseeing so much of the work. Stay tuned for work from an amazing group of contributors!

Manuscript title page for "Africana Religions in America and the Challenges of History," edited by Vaughn A. Booker, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Judith Weisenfeld, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I have seen this graffiti on several buildings in Montgomery, Alabama reading: NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR.

A dilapidated building where Davis Cleaners used to operate. It has a sign that says: Improving Montgomery - Demolition Coming Soon. Graffiti on the boarded up door reads: No War but Class War.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

At the Montgomery Biscuits vs the Biloxi Shuckers. Fantastic seats.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I spent the day at the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Sites in Montgomery. I have lots of thoughts about narrative choices and absences, but it is a truly impressive project. Visitors were so engaged.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We went out to see some lambs today. Time well spent.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm re-listening to @thislynne.bsky.social's stunning podcast, *When We All Get to Heaven* to choose an episode for a spring course. A difficult choice! www.heavenpodcast.org

An image of people in leather pants in a church choir.

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Outward presents
When We all Get to Heaven

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai. papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...

2025 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
Diagnosing Devotion, Denying Freedom: A Roundtable on Science, Religion, and Race in Judith Weisenfeld's Black Religion in the Madhouse (NYU Press 2025)
Presiding: Nicole Myers Turner and Donovan Schaefer
Panelists: Danielle Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence Keel, Wangui Muigai
Respondent: Judith Weisenfeld
Saturday, November 22 | 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom A

Image: book cover of Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If you're around Princeton on November 6, come hear Sally Promey talk about her new book, *Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display* Registration required: religion.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

An image of a large cross next to an American flag.
Text: The Danforth Lecture in the Study of Religion.
How Power Moves: Testimonial Aesthetics, Material Establishment, and the Limits of American Display
Sally M. Promey, Yale University
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building A17
Reception to follow. Registration Required.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Beautiful morning walk in the Catskills.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Very hazy in Hoboken from the Canadian wild fires.

View of NYC from Hoboken, NJ. The sky is hazy.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Oh hey, @wnba.com is giving real-time updates on these major games over on X, but nothing on @bsky.app about anything going on in the league today.

WNBA graphic listing five games for Sunday, August 3.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Excited to receive my copy of @drkyliesmith.bsky.social and @cethompson.bsky.social’s collection. Of course I wish I had had it before I dipped my scholarly toes into health history! It really looks fantastic.

Photo of the book Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I'll be doing an Ask Me Anything on r/AskHistorians on Wednesday, July 16 and am looking forward to questions about *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake* (NYU, 2025). nyupress.org/978147982978...

Cover of the book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake by Judith Weisenfeld.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Not a good view, but thousands have turned out for #NoKings in Princeton, despite the rain.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Happy 93rd birthday to my father, Bernie. Here I am with him, somewhere in Canada, back in the day. He was usually the photographer, so this is a rare one.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Excellent mail day with the arrival of @katicurts.bsky.social’s new book!

Photograph of a book titled Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Today is the official publication day of *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*! Much gratitude to family, friends, students, and colleagues who engaged the project, and to librarians and foundations for support in the research process.

Cover of Judith Weisenfeld, *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake.*
30% discount from NYU Press with the code NYUAU30.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Another excellent day of #AmRel mail, with the arrival of @apetro.bsky.social’s new book, *Provoking Religion”!

Cover of Anthony M. Petro, Provoking Religion: Sex, Art and the Culture Wars.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I join the happy recipients of @ahmadgreene.com’s #underworldwork!

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Some signs from the #HandsOff rally in Princeton, NJ.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I just ordered @apetro.bsky.social's forthcoming book, *Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars.* Use the discount code AUFLY30 for 30% off. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Book cover: Anthony Petro, Provoking Religion: Sex, Art and the Culture Wars

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My copies finally arrived! Thanks to all who encouraged and supported the project. nyupress.org/978147982978...

Cover of Judith Weisenfeld, *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake* (New York University Press)

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Finally got an advance reader copy. It is almost a book!

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

An opportunity to hear my colleague Laura Arnold Liebman talk about her book, *Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family* at CU Boulder and streaming on Zoom. 3/3/2025 at 7:00PM Mountain calendar.colorado.edu/event/once-w...

Cover of the book Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family by Laura Arnold Liebman.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Just arrived. Tyler Davis’s remarkable collection of oral histories with members of Waco’s Black community that started as an @xroadproj.bsky.social research fellowship (check out the project on SPIRIT HOUSE). Available from Baylor University Press. www.baylorpress.com/978148132256...

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

How I feel about what lies ahead in 2025. Margaret of Antioch striking the demon Beelzebub with a hammer. Detail from Barna di Siena’s 1340 “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine.”

A 1340 painting of Margaret of Antioch striking the demon Beelzebub with a hammer.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A second visit to “ Jimmy! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth” at the Schomburg, followed by delicious vegan jollof rice at Azara kitchen.

A painted wall with the exhibit title: Jimmy! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

An exciting exhibit by @xroadproj.bsky.social Arts Fellow Taurean Webb, on display soon at Trinity UCC, Chicago, including a live event with the artists on January 19 at 1:30pm Central.

Ye Shall Inherit The Earth: A Portrait Ballad to Black-Palestine
On Display: January 12-20, 2025
Artist Roundtable: January 19, 2025 @ 1:30pm Central
Trinity United Church of Christ
400 W. 95th St. Chicago, IL 60628
Senior Pastor: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Creative Producer: Taurean J. Webb PH.D.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Mercy, stalking her toy on the stairs.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

30% off with code NYUAU30 when ordering from the NYU Press site.

Cover image: Judith Weisenfeld, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake. NYU Press. Save 30% when you use NYUAU30 at checkout on NYUPRESS.ORG.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Coming April 29, 2025 and available for pre-order, with 30% off (use code NYUAU30) when ordering from @nyupress.bsky.social. nyupress.org/978147982978...

Cover image: Judith Weisenfeld, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake. NYU Press. Save 30% when you use code NYUAU30 on checkout at nyupress.org.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This, from 1950, is up next on my reading list for a research project. Seems relevant to the times. 😉

Title page of the book titled “Is Another World Watching? The Riddle of the Flying Saucers,” by Gerald Heard, published by Harper & Brothers.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Tonight 12/6 at 7:30pm ET Live webcast from Oberlin College Conservatory of the opera Omar, based on the life of Omar ibn Said Composers: Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels Librettist: Rhiannon Giddens www.oberlin.edu/conservatory...

Photograph of Omar ibn Said advertising the opera Omar by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you run into me at #AARSBL24, you might get a bookmark for SPIRIT HOUSE (www.crossroads-spirithouse.org) or a postcard with a 30% discount on my book, BLACK RELIGION IN THE MADHOUSE (nyupress.org/978147982978...). Maybe both.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I'm grateful to NYU Press's publicity team for getting the book into Publishers Weekly but the article is behind a paywall, unfortunately. nyupress.org/978147982978...

Part of an article from Publishers Weekly. Headline: A New Book Explores the History of Racialization in Psychiatry: Scholar Judith Weisenfeld explains how U.S. psychiatrists pathologized Black religious belief after the abolition of slavery.

A photograph of Judith Weisenfeld next to an image of the cover of the book *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake.*

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My colleague @wendylbelcher.bsky.social and her team have launched the Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project. Check it out: pemm.princeton.edu

PEMM Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project.
Introducing the PEMM website!
Explore beautifully illuminated manuscripts and captivating narratives from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt.
Visit: www.pemm.princeton.edu

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

How is it possible that the rpk Group that is wreaking havoc on colleges and universities -- including New Jersey City University where my sister taught, WVU, and more -- is located in a strip mall in Annapolis, Maryland? What's up???

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