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A new model of activism by religious leaders shows the effect of congregational context. Read the details from Kraig Beyerlein and Manuel Rodriguez in Sociological Focus.

#newResearch #sociology #religion #quantitativeResearch

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The Effect of Congregational Context on Religious Leaders’ Political Activism
Prior studies of clergy’s differential political participation have examined a variety of factors, including religious leaders’ personal characteristics, perceptions of laity approval, or ecologica...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Shanghai, China, offers a unique view of digital authoritarianism, popular resistance, and state capacity in the wake of the 2022 COVID-19 lockdown. Read our new report from Jinpu Wang and Yu Xiang.

#Covid #China #resistance #community #authoritarian

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Plague, Food, and Freedom: Bounded Resistance in the Shanghai COVID-19 Lockdown
This paper examines state–society relations and the opportunity structure for popular resistance during the 2022 COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China. Drawing on digital ethnographic data from WeCh...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Introducing the Sociological Focus Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations!

Original articles from notable scholars. Thanks to our editor in chief Khari Brown and our guest editors @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob Neiheisel.

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations
Published in Sociological Focus (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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July 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Community-engaged research of faith-based racial justice, thanks to Rebecca Glazier, Gerald Driskill, and Owen Haynes.

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#sociology #researchMethods #racialJustice #religion
Linking Community-Based Research and Faith-Based Racial Justice
Racial inequity is a major source of social and political division. Although religious traditions have a mixed history when it comes to racial equity, they also often have the tools and the theolog...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Do Catholic priests discuss immigration? How do Catholic leaders address the issue? Diane Beckman and Evan Stewart provide answers in our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #politics #immigration #Catholic
Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration?
Social science research has long discussed the interaction of political and religious ideologies in attitude formation and political socialization. Most research focuses on the role of these forces...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Clergy address gun violence in response to tragic events. Nela Mrchkovska & Enrique Quezada-Llanes analyze what is said in 200,000 sermons and present their results in our special issue on religion and politics.

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#sociology #racialJustice #gunViolence #LLM
Voices from the Pulpit: Discourse on Racial Justice and Gun Violence from American Clergy
Over the past years, many religious congregations have addressed issues of racial justice and gun violence following the killing of George Floyd and recent mass shootings in places like Uvalde, Tex...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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How do religious leaders engage with community problems? @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob R. Neiheisel provide answers from National Survey of Religious Leaders (NRSL) data. Part of our special issue on religion and politics.

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#sociology #religion #NRSL #clergy
Do Religious Leaders Engage Community Environmental Problems?
Much of the research about religious engagement with the environment has focused on individual citizens, leaving religious organizations and religious professionals (clergy) in the background or ig...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Read about racial activism by United Methodist clergy from Anna Holleman, Erin F. Johnston, and Kelsey Mischke in our forthcoming special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #Methodist #congregations #racialJustice
Walking the Tightrope: How White United Methodist Clergy Approach Race and Racial Justice
Religious congregations in the United States have long been sites for political organization and mobilization. Following the summer of 2020, clergy have been increasingly reckoning with how to navi...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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What do #Christian persecution beliefs (CPBs) reveal about racial boundaries? Walker, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, & Calfano explore the question ➡️ Do CPBs vary by #race in their adoption, constitution, & consequences? #OpenAccess in the @jssreligion.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fellowship in the Fiery Furnace: A Research Note on How Christian Persecution Beliefs Transcend Racial Divides
This study aims to investigate the relationship between Christian persecution beliefs (CPBs) and race. Existing CPB research has asserted that CPBs constitute a socially appropriate tool to signal Wh....
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July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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How does faith shape the politics of Catholic priests? Kathleen Sellers and Roseph Roso explore. Read more, part of our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #Catholic #politics
Priestly Politics: Faith Formation and Political Ideology Among Catholic Clergy
Catholic priests have long been important political actors both in mobilizing direct political action and shaping the way Catholic faithful view important public issues. Historically, Catholic cler...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Gilliland and co-authors explore clergy's role in framing Black Lives Matter protests. Read more, part of our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#sociology #religion #BLM #GeorgeFloyd #politics #protestant #clergy
Politics, Protest, and Police: Assessing Religious Leaders’ Responses to Racism and the June 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests
Religious organizations have long histories of advocating for particular political causes and supporting social movements, providing organizational and ideological resources to mobilize religious p...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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When leaders have cross-partisan pressure, do they talk about political issues or avoid them? Now out @socfocus.bsky.social, @umbsociology.bsky.social PhD candidate Diane Beckman & I look at the case of Catholic leaders to explore this question:
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Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration?
Social science research has long discussed the interaction of political and religious ideologies in attitude formation and political socialization. Most research focuses on the role of these forces...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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“Narratives highlight how we can harness imagination to confront forms of discrimination in one of the most fundamental yet overlooked aspects of our daily lives: clothing.”

Rachele Reschiglian reviews ‪@katjungnickel.bsky.social‬ et al’s edited volume.

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June 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🚨 URGENT REQUEST - PLEASE BOOST 🚨

I'm looking for names/connections

Academics, researchers, prominent figures *anywhere*, but *especially* #Canada having at least *some* connection to *any* fields related to:

- #Genocide (in general)
- #Trans Genocide
- #Geopolitics as they relate to trans people
February 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
January 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Interesting paper that looks at the difference between sons of mining accident fatalities and seriously injured, and finds an 18% loss of income for the orphans. Well illustrates how nice causal identification is often personally horrible
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A Mighty Toll
This paper estimates the causal effects of parental loss on a child’s adulthood economic well-being by leveraging digitized records of nearly all early 20th-century U.S. mining accidents. I compare th...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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So here is my first post: my latest open access article ‘The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion…’ in International Politics journal, discussing my experiences participating in a project to work in five African countries link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity - International Politics
This article analyses the international queer politics of development by examining UK aid addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, plus (LGBT+) inclusion in the context of COVID-19 and right-wing ...
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November 16, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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For Sociology
Podcast · Kevin Caners · "For Sociology" is the podcast of the Kohli Foundation, featuring conversations with some of the most distinguished minds in sociology. In each episode, we explore our guests...
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December 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Do diversity initiatives actually help move an organization toward equity, or are they an exercise in publicity? Dig into a case study at a large technology company through this #newResearch by Annika Wilcox.

#sociology #dei #diversity #equity #corporate
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Conforming Critical Diversity: Voicing Diversity for Equity in an Organizational Inequality Regime
Diversity is a contested notion: it can be framed “uncritically,” as all differences that benefit privileged groups, or “critically,” as categorical inequalities that must be addressed to advance e...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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hellgatenyc.com Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Dec 18
NYU banning student protestors from a building that houses a legendary archive of the history of radical protest is almost like hiring a journalist who covers policing in New York City and penalizing him for covering policing in New York City...

Our conversation with @chenjerai.bsky.social:
NYU Bans Its Own Journalism Professor From Multiple Buildings After He Documented a Pro-Palestine Protest
We spoke with NYU journalism professor Chenjerai Kumanyika about how the school's intensified campus policing strategy might be doing Donald Trump's work for him.
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December 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Seems unlikely
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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The Netherlands is a case of commemoration and heritage demonstrating alternative conceptions of justice within communities. Explore this through #newResearch offered by Jing Hiah, Dorota Lepianka, and Machteld Geuskens.

#Sociology #Netherlands #justice
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Folk Paradigms of Justice in Commemoration and Heritage in the Postcolonial Netherlands: A Vignette Study among Opinion Leaders
This study contributes to understanding how commemoration and heritage constitute part of a broader struggle for justice in the postcolonial Netherlands. By means of vignette-based interviews with ...
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December 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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A thread on my paper with @masseconomics.bsky.social published earlier this year in @edqjournal.bsky.social: "Beyond Local and Traded: Evidence for a Third Industry Market Area Type and Implications for Regional Economic Development" #urbanism #sociology #geog

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December 9, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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And... already feeling a little less hopeful...
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Le sigh...
irissoleil.com Iris Soleil @irissoleil.com · Nov 18
It's a strange feeling to be... hopeful about a social media platform again. Very cautiously so, mind you, but I've missed the academic community on twixxer. The fact that Bluesky is a Public Benefit LLC not owned by any of the technofascist Broligarchy is heartening. Hoping it stays that way...
November 18, 2024 at 11:27 PM