RGP

A reader-friendly & fun blog about contemporary religion. All blog posts are penned by researchers. Twitter account mostly managed by @mafa11

[RGP @ReligionGPublic]

We’d like to congratulate @giuliaevolvi on her research award!

[Network for New Media Religion & Digital Culture @nmrdcnetwork]

PRESS RELEASE: 2022 Digital Religion Research Award winner is Dr. Giulia Evolvi for her article: Religion and the internet: Digital religion, (hyper)mediated spaces, and materiality. Click below to read more!

https://t.co/pBAevolPgu

[RGP @ReligionGPublic]

New post! Audun Toft looks at how popular culture makes its way into religious education in Norway.
https://t.co/04r0M0mGXU

[Center for Critical Research on Religion @critresrel]

Per-Erik Nilsson, "Manifestos of White Nationalist Ethno-Soldiers" in the August 2022 special issue of Critical Research on Religion on Racism and Religion:
https://t.co/nWwF7Q0PEo

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

How Queuing to Pay Respect to the Queen Became a Pilgrimage https://t.co/GU2VdBoNGP

[Pew Research Religion @PewReligion]

Over the last 15 years, the share of U.S. adults who identify as Christians has dropped by 15 percentage points, from 78% to 63%. The share who are unaffiliated has grown commensurately – rising by 1 point per year, on average, from 16% to nearly 30%. https://t.co/ePa6mU2jTV

[Where Religion Lives @WhereRelLives]

It is really thrilling to share @JLWeisenfeld book- African American women and Christian activism. https://t.co/JU8oT5BhDM

[Where Religion Lives @WhereRelLives]

This is super exciting! Congratulations👏 @dr_zaku @UNC_Press

[Bristol Uni Press @BrisUniPress]

Fighting fear one comedic punch at a time. @MAFA11 explores using humour to fight the fear tactics of groups like #ISIS on Transforming Society.
https://t.co/7dwByNd1sw

[Journal of Law and Religion @JLRatEmory]

The new issue is here & #freetoread until 9/15!

Articles from Benjamin Lawrence, Rabiat Akande, Emine Enise Yakar & @ZalRothschild. Essay collaboration w/ @PolTheoNetwork feat. Brandon Paradise, @monasiddiqui7 & @nadiamarzouki1.

https://t.co/fUbndokLMN

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

"The modern practice of witchcraft among women, queer people, and people of color often resists drawing an irrevocable line between religion and magic." https://t.co/PQBcb68zyI

[Center for Critical Research on Religion @critresrel]

Announcing the August 2022 special issue of Critical Research on Religion on Racism and Religion:
https://t.co/cLJIN1CbQD
@AARWeb @ASReligion @SSSReligion @IssrSisr @AnthroReligion @ausreligion @EsaRn34 @SarahABracke @ASA_Religion

[RGP @ReligionGPublic]

RGP is back with a bang & with a co-publication with the Transforming Society blog.

@MAFA11 asks whether comedy has the power to dismantle extremism, and whether it matters if the comedy is in Arabic or English. #ISIS #satire #comedy #AcademicTwitter

https://t.co/1HYHQeAHOA

[Jocelyne Cesari @jocelyne_cesari]

Happy to be part of this event and to have it for once outside the West
@CadburyCentre @PTRBirmingham @GUberkleycenter @HarvardDivinity @AlJazeera @eu_are @TariqModood @MuqtedarKhan @SaimaMir @HannahAllam @MehreenKhn @ReligionGPublic @MyriamFrancoisC @NidalHamdiTw @BrookingsDoha

[American Academy of Religion @AARWeb]

Congratulations to Khaled Abou El Fadl, who is the 2020 recipient of the AAR's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion! 🎉 Learn more: https://t.co/xrQK6K0U6m

[CMRC @CUBoulder_CMRC]

Been following the #religion of Kanye? Check out this #CFP for an edited volume “Yeezus Walks.” Ch abstracts and bios due to @ArtBamford & @srajabi by March 16th.

[Mona Abdel-Fadil @MAFA11]

Is Mindfulness a Religion for Unbelievers? | NSRN Online https://t.co/pu7Phv4kpt

[Humour & Religion Network @HumRelNetwork]

If your research involves looking at issues at the intersections of humour, satire and comedy, with religion, faith and belief then remember to use: #HumourandReligion

[Humour & Religion Network @HumRelNetwork]

THREAD 1/4: This week’s #FridayFeature is Lieke Stelling (@LiekeStelling), Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at @UniUtrecht. Her research interests include #HumourandReligion, jest books, and religious conversion.

[LSE Religion and Global Society @LSE_RGS]

'Religion shapes many people’s worldviews; it can be a personal motivation and a central part of the complex formation of cultural and social identity.' @AndReligion https://t.co/S9QLnfG1el