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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

and multilayered changes to the chaplain profession. I’m thankful for the fellowship that made this project possible. @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

to better understand the influence of metaphysical religion on modern chaplain education and practice. This research will lead to at least two articles that I hope will contribute meaningfully to conversations about the many recent…

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Honored to have received the Ostad Elahi Fellowship Award in the Study of Religion from my home Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With the additional financial support this academic year, I was able to interview chaplains across four major healthcare systems…

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kate Bowler’s dissertation book, Blessed (2013), inspired me to apply to Ph.D. programs in religious studies three years ago. It was such a *joy* to meet her today on the West Coast, to hear about her new book, Joyful Anyway. She even signed my copy of Blessed from years ago :)

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

“Sarah Jobe—a career prison chaplain herself—opens with the claim that prison chaplaincy is death work.” – @ptugwell.bsky.social reviews No Godforsaken Place www.christiancentury.org/books/death-... @tandtclark.bsky.social

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Death work

Sarah Jobe puts testimonies from her fellow prison chaplains in conversation with Karl Barth’s work on reconciliation. Does resurrection matter in the face of state-sanctioned...

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

all the way to being entirely present in highest political office in the United States. The rags-to-riches myth—based on a misinterpretation of, for instance, Horatio Alger’s novels—is alive and well and is used to sell everything from a product to a political character.

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

traced the cocreation of religion and sales in ostensibly secular parts of American life since Jefferson. The movement was never a monolith, was hotly contested at times, but was, most importantly, highly influential—

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

My #AARSBL25 paper 2 had a full room at 8:30am on the final morning of this year’s American Academy of Religion. Grateful for a lively and engaging Q&A, supportive colleagues and many guests and new friends. My paper, “The American Theology of Winning: Trump, Peale, and the Metaphysical Tradition,”

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Jobe’s new book is the first-ever peer-reviewed ethnographic publication on and from within prisons. Find your copy here: lnkd.in/ebq4ScPH

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Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Thank you to the Reverend Dr. Sarah Jobe for her field-making ethnography on prisons and prison chaplaincy and to Ryan Schellenberg and friends at Chaplaincy Innovation Lab for gathering such an incredibly talented panel, with Drs. Jerusha Neal, Shelly Rambo, and Jason Evans. #AARSBL25 #SBLAAR25

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