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Samuel Perry

@profsamperry.bsky.social
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Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 11h
I'm not so sure that's even our best one! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @profsamperry.bsky.social
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 15h
I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who is resisting Christian Nationalism? Check out this new report from @prri.org & @snfagora.bsky.social's Meanings and Democracy Lab. State legislatures & religious diversity shape CN resistance across all 50 states prri.org/research/res... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social @robertpjones.bsky.social
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Resistance to Christian Nationalism in All 50 States: A PRRI-Meanings of Democracy Lab Report
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That would be entirely consistent with our finding some years ago that Google searches for male enhancement terms (e.g., "male enhancement pills" "penis enlargement") are strongly correlated with evangelical adherence rate in a state, even with numerous controls. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol. I just read that over a decade ago in an effort to increase Russian birthrates, Vladimir Putin hired Boyz II Men to put on a concert in the hopes that their popular slow jams would put Russians in the mood.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"the more we dug into Rubin’s claims and data, the more we realized that the assessments should not be kept confidential. The claims were too extreme, the institutions behind it were too prominent, and...media attention to the...project and to sociology’s supposed 'politicization' was too immense"
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did you know pronatalist policies have been tried throughout history & they're almost always huge failures & huge wastes of government resources? Not that making childbearing & parenting more affordable isn't a laudable goal. But if the goal is increased fertility, pronatalist policies don't work.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a great book for anyone interested in a cross-national history of thinking & policy regarding population size and specifically birth rates. Scandalously awful pricing on this, sadly (over $60.00 on Amazon and $73.00 at OUP website). I got pdfs via my library. www.amazon.com/dp/019087184...
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Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power
Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power [Togman, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looking at this poster reminds me of the study by @brooklynwalker.bsky.social & @pauldjupe.bsky.social showing that it's the men who are trying to compensate for feeling unmasculine who are more Christian nationalist, sexist, extremist, & pro-violence. Study here: academic.oup.com/socrel/artic...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From the football swag I see around town on a weekly basis, it feels like half the adults on Manhattan's upper east side went to Michigan.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Kenneth Ethan Frantz @kennethefrantz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great fact checking from @roysreport.bsky.social! Mark Driscoll is a liar and narcissist. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LnB7...
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Mark Driscoll rewrites Mars Hill history on the Jeremy Boreing Show
YouTube video by Roys Report
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Students and colleagues, the aesthetics of the tables in your manuscript matter. If they look cut and paste, bunched up, weirdly organized, or otherwise thrown in there it gives the impression of a rush job or someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Doesn't have to be LaTeX to look nice.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The evangelical leaders and writers who first dismissed our Christian nationalism research as "just another leftist slur targeting Christians in politics" currently spend their days online warning about the dangers of Christian nationalism while being dogpiled by Christian nationalists on Twitter.
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Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this is twelve kinds of sad
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You don't get to call "nut-picking" when the nuts are headlining and funding your flagship conferences. Those nuts are your leaders.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Erickson is a conservative Christian author denouncing Charles Haywood, who is a rich fascist who funds fascist stuff. One thing Erickson leaves out is Haywood's also a leader in pronatalist circles. Spoke at the 2023 NatalCon & sponsored the 2025 conference. ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-midwes...
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charles-haywood-claremont-american-reformer-fuentes
Charles Haywood's money sits inside the Claremont Institute, American Reformer, and the Southern Baptist fight. Nick Fuentes is working the same end from outside.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"At least once a month, reporting on fertility, I ask for an academic source and am instead directed to Waters, author of a biblical women’s leadership book that basically says the best thing about the Barbie movie was the patriarchy." Expertise is no match for a loud voice & a big microphone. 😭😭😭
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She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/09/2026
I was once at a summit/think-tank sort of thing with a bunch of philosophers discussing social trust (only psychologist there) and I listened to them discussing how people make decisions about what they believe and I remember asking “do you think this is actually how people make decisions?”
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Free speech includes free press. PERIOD. We stand with every single reporter who refuses to let this Administration decide what gets covered, what gets ignored, and what the American people get to see. The American people deserve the truth, and our reporters have the right to tell it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New study @nature.com establishes predictors of White nationalism in the US. Among the predictors are higher worship attendance & belief that non-White and non-Christian groups have too much power, along with being low-SES, conservative, GOP, & politically disaffected. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States - Nature
Explicit support for white nationalism is uncommon overall, but higher among young white men, disadvantaged and politically disaffected white people, conservatives, Republicans, and those with primari...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cool cool cool. Problem solved. “AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior” More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Trump announces ‘AI Force’ as alarm grows over technology’s advance
US president has resisted calls for regulation but said he would appoint a ‘tsar’ to monitor for ‘bad’ behaviour
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great new study from @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social at @socprobsjournal.bsky.social. Analyzing 21 years of data from the forum Stormfront, he shows the religious foundation of White nationalism is not solely Christian, but integrates Christian, pagan, & positivist repertoires. doi.org/10.1093/socp...
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Christian, pagan, positivist: the religious repertoires of white nationalism
ABSTRACT. Scholarship on the far right often treats Christianity as the dominant religious frame structuring contemporary white nationalist politics. I arg
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 19/09/2026
Anyway, I’ll be on capitol hill on Tuesday talking to congressmen about this stuff
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Predictable result, but now we have it in peer-reviewed form.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New at @jssreligion.bsky.social. We asked Christians what actions help build the Kingdom of God on earth: we find the more Christians affirm Christian nationalism, the more they deprioritize charity & justice while prioritizing Christian statism & evangelism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Luigi Cadorna did very little wrong @beecherbibles56.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just wait until they find out (as political science did decades ago) that most voters simply crimp their political opinions from the elites whom they identify with and align with, such that you can change public opinion literally by changing party platform.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Freaking blown away. And I'm grateful every single day.
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Important angle on US Christian-fundamentalist culture
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nice interview with @kkdumez.bsky.social about her new book Live, Laugh, Love. @kennethefrantz.bsky.social publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/performati...
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Performative Submission and the Gospel of Free Market Capitalism
An interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez on White Christian womanhood.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My favorite C. S. Lewis essay is "Learning in Wartime," where he argues that Christian scholars aren't obliged to make sure all their conclusions edify and encourage the church. The only obligation Christian scholars have is the one all scholars should have: to do rigorous, honest work. Period.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can be a serious Christian while recognizing the reality that the future will likely be *both* less Christian *and* not a dystopic hellscape. You can also be a Christian and believe that the Bible & Jesus' example give you insights on how to live morally while not insisting they govern society.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I like Tommy Kidd. I've read many of his books. And I'll reserve final judgment until I read it. But unless this deals squarely with the steady march of secular transition via cohort change the vibe feels more like a pep talk to fellow Christians than serious argument. www.amazon.com/Death-Religi...
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The Death of Religion?: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith
The Death of Religion?: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith - Kindle edition by Johnson, Byron R., Kidd, Thomas S.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Death of Religion?: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Aspire to live in such a way that reporters write stories on why people don’t like you. 🙃 baptistnews.com/article/what...
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What’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?
Unfortunately, not everyone in evangelicalism receives Du Mez’s scholarship with such openness, says Rick Pidcock.
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’ll tell you what. When it’s all said and done, I’m glad my work and writing are clear enough that my name shows up with the likes of Kristin and Robby and Sam. Onward, friends.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New from me. Using the GSS wordsum vocabulary test (common proxy for cognitive ability), I find lower scores are associated with greater adherence to Christian nationalist views. This is consistent with studies finding lower scores among fundamentalists & authoritarians. 1/4 doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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call me Mara @callmemara.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This work and the ongoing research by @profsamperry.bsky.social is super helpful for those who are seeking to understand what has happened in their churches and communities in the last 20 years. Read all his stuff. Highly recommend.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New from me. Using the GSS wordsum vocabulary test (common proxy for cognitive ability), I find lower scores are associated with greater adherence to Christian nationalist views. This is consistent with studies finding lower scores among fundamentalists & authoritarians. 1/4 doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We took our kids to the 9/11 museum at ground zero last week. Couldn't make it through without crying several times. The exhibits where you see photos of people jumping out of the towers or where you hear phone calls from passengers on flight 93 to their loved ones just wrecked me.
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