Andrea L. Turpin
@andrealturpin.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Baylor U. Author, *A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, & the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education.* Currently researching women in US religious controversies. Views my own.
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HI! I am a historian who writes on religion, women, & higher ed, sometimes together and sometimes separately. I blog monthly for @anxiousbench.bsky.social, a group of religious historians connecting the past & present. I love truth, beauty, & goodness, especially seasons literal and liturgical.
Congrats to my colleague Ron Johnson on publication of this excellent book!
Today is the official PUBLICATION DAY for *Entangled Alliances* from @cornellupress.bsky.social!!! Save on your copy of the book with the QR code and discount code. 📚
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Congrats to my colleague Ron Johnson on publication of this excellent book!
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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I genuinely love my department. Come work with us! *Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Medieval History (Global) at Baylor University* Application Deadline September 15 apply.interfolio.com/169126
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August 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I genuinely love my department. Come work with us! *Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Medieval History (Global) at Baylor University* Application Deadline September 15 apply.interfolio.com/169126
I'm so glad it was helpful!!
I had reason this week to read @andrealturpin.bsky.social's wonderful historiographical essay on religion and higher ed. Highly recommended.
Andrea L. Turpin, “The History of Religion in American Higher Education,” Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 35 (2020): 49–110.
Andrea L. Turpin, “The History of Religion in American Higher Education,” Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 35 (2020): 49–110.
August 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm so glad it was helpful!!
I have started this, and I am loving it!
Congratulations to @karenswallowprior.bsky.social on the release of her new book today, You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful 🎉
We are all called pursue the good, true, & beautiful, no matter what our job or role in life.
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We are all called pursue the good, true, & beautiful, no matter what our job or role in life.
bakerbookhouse.com/products/618...
You Have a Calling
Our vocations don't always align with our passions. Award-winning author Karen Swallow Prior shows we are all called pursue the good, the true, and the beautiful, no matter what our passion, job, role...
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August 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I have started this, and I am loving it!
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The Journal of the Early Republic is thrilled to announce the "From Conference Paper to Article Workshop," held 9-2pm Weds, Aug 20th
Get feedback from #JERPano editors and revise toward publication
Submit a CV and title by June 30th 2025. For details visit: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/28/j...
Get feedback from #JERPano editors and revise toward publication
Submit a CV and title by June 30th 2025. For details visit: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/28/j...
JER From Conference Paper to Article Workshop
Open to anybody who has presented a conference paper on the era of the early republic in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The Journal of the Early Republic is thrilled to announce the "From Conference Paper to Article Workshop," held 9-2pm Weds, Aug 20th
Get feedback from #JERPano editors and revise toward publication
Submit a CV and title by June 30th 2025. For details visit: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/28/j...
Get feedback from #JERPano editors and revise toward publication
Submit a CV and title by June 30th 2025. For details visit: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/28/j...
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"I was researching the denomination’s Women’s Missionary Union (WMU) for my book on how Protestant women’s organizations navigated the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, the early twentieth-century debate between theological..."
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From The Archives: Learning From SBC Women’s Ministries
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on July 21, 2021. I spent last week researching in the Southern Baptist Convention archives, located within
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April 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"I was researching the denomination’s Women’s Missionary Union (WMU) for my book on how Protestant women’s organizations navigated the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, the early twentieth-century debate between theological..."
✍️ @andrealturpin.bsky.social
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
✍️ @andrealturpin.bsky.social
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Overcome with joy watching students enjoying Baylor's springtime campus and was reminded of Gerard Manley Hopkins' line "There lives the dearest freshness deep down things"--about not just the trees but also each new crop of students. In the words of Lady Julian, "All Shall Be Well."
April 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Overcome with joy watching students enjoying Baylor's springtime campus and was reminded of Gerard Manley Hopkins' line "There lives the dearest freshness deep down things"--about not just the trees but also each new crop of students. In the words of Lady Julian, "All Shall Be Well."
PSA: The Residence on Netflix was AWESOME. A pitch perfect comedy murder mystery set in the White House, with an ultimately hopeful vision of the nation.
April 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
PSA: The Residence on Netflix was AWESOME. A pitch perfect comedy murder mystery set in the White House, with an ultimately hopeful vision of the nation.
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Thanks for inviting me to talk about #Women’sHistory with @andrealturpin.bsky.social
It was so much fun I think we could have kept talking all afternoon!
It was so much fun I think we could have kept talking all afternoon!
* Why study women's history?
* What kinds of unusual sources are used?
* How did higher ed change as more women enrolled?
Baylor History's Dr. Andrea Turpin & Amy Achenbach discuss these topics and more in celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth:
youtu.be/yqbgeIaHAO4
* What kinds of unusual sources are used?
* How did higher ed change as more women enrolled?
Baylor History's Dr. Andrea Turpin & Amy Achenbach discuss these topics and more in celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth:
youtu.be/yqbgeIaHAO4
Baylor Profs Talk Women's History for #WomensHistoryMonth
YouTube video by Baylor University
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March 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks for inviting me to talk about #Women’sHistory with @andrealturpin.bsky.social
It was so much fun I think we could have kept talking all afternoon!
It was so much fun I think we could have kept talking all afternoon!
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March 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Amadi Amaitsa (Baylor PhD ‘24) who recently accepted a position at Oklahoma Baptist University beginning in fall 2025.
March 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Amadi Amaitsa (Baylor PhD ‘24) who recently accepted a position at Oklahoma Baptist University beginning in fall 2025.
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We have a NEW Baylor History PhD! Join us in congratulating DR. Heidi Campbell
on a successful dissertation defense under the direction of @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social . 👏👏👏
on a successful dissertation defense under the direction of @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social . 👏👏👏
February 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We have a NEW Baylor History PhD! Join us in congratulating DR. Heidi Campbell
on a successful dissertation defense under the direction of @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social . 👏👏👏
on a successful dissertation defense under the direction of @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social . 👏👏👏
Excited to read the new book by my friend Malcolm Foley!
January 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Excited to read the new book by my friend Malcolm Foley!
A friend on another site brought this to my attention: Everyone who is 45 or will be turning 45, this is our year! 2025 is 45 squared! It feels like I am in an elite portion of humanity 🙂. (The next one is 2116, when I will no longer be with us!)
January 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A friend on another site brought this to my attention: Everyone who is 45 or will be turning 45, this is our year! 2025 is 45 squared! It feels like I am in an elite portion of humanity 🙂. (The next one is 2116, when I will no longer be with us!)
I should add that favorite listens for me this year have been Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad is Untrue, @esaumccaulley.bsky.social's How Far to the Promised Land, and A Gentleman in Moscow (still in the middle of that one).
I have way too many Audible credits I need to use up: suggestions for good audio books???
December 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I should add that favorite listens for me this year have been Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad is Untrue, @esaumccaulley.bsky.social's How Far to the Promised Land, and A Gentleman in Moscow (still in the middle of that one).
I have way too many Audible credits I need to use up: suggestions for good audio books???
December 30, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I have way too many Audible credits I need to use up: suggestions for good audio books???
I’ve seen it noted that everyone who is commenting is commenting on his excellent character. May that be true of us all. RIP, Jimmy Carter, and thank you for being that kind of leader.
BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter, a champion for human rights and the poor, has died at age 100, the Carter Center says.
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December 30, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I’ve seen it noted that everyone who is commenting is commenting on his excellent character. May that be true of us all. RIP, Jimmy Carter, and thank you for being that kind of leader.
Merry Christmas! I happened to be assigned the @anxiousbench.bsky.social post for today, so please enjoy photographs and reflections from my time in Bethlehem two Christmases ago: www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
Bethlehem in Song and Image
My favorite Christmas albums resonated more for me after I visited Bethlehem in December 2022, the last Christmas before renewed violence.
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December 25, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Merry Christmas! I happened to be assigned the @anxiousbench.bsky.social post for today, so please enjoy photographs and reflections from my time in Bethlehem two Christmases ago: www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
#4 & #5 are sharing a day because they are both pre-orders, so gifts for someone who wants to be surprised one day in early Spring :-):
Book 5: Looking forward to @skyejethani.bsky.social's What if Jesus Was Serious About Justice, about how evangelism and social reform go together.
Book 5: Looking forward to @skyejethani.bsky.social's What if Jesus Was Serious About Justice, about how evangelism and social reform go together.
December 21, 2024 at 11:56 PM
#4 & #5 are sharing a day because they are both pre-orders, so gifts for someone who wants to be surprised one day in early Spring :-):
Book 5: Looking forward to @skyejethani.bsky.social's What if Jesus Was Serious About Justice, about how evangelism and social reform go together.
Book 5: Looking forward to @skyejethani.bsky.social's What if Jesus Was Serious About Justice, about how evangelism and social reform go together.
#4 & #5 are sharing a day because they are both pre-orders, so gifts for someone who wants to be surprised one day in early Spring :-):
Book 4: Really enjoying @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's Becoming the Pastor's Wife! About how we got to where women called to ministry had to marry a pastor.
Book 4: Really enjoying @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's Becoming the Pastor's Wife! About how we got to where women called to ministry had to marry a pastor.
December 21, 2024 at 11:45 PM
#4 & #5 are sharing a day because they are both pre-orders, so gifts for someone who wants to be surprised one day in early Spring :-):
Book 4: Really enjoying @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's Becoming the Pastor's Wife! About how we got to where women called to ministry had to marry a pastor.
Book 4: Really enjoying @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's Becoming the Pastor's Wife! About how we got to where women called to ministry had to marry a pastor.
For all those looking for last-minute gifts, here are 5 books (one a day!) I'm enjoying or looking forward to reading in the near future:
Day 3: Enjoying Recovery From Purity Culture by Camden Morgante, broadly evangelical psychologist, for both those who stayed in that church and those who didn't.
Day 3: Enjoying Recovery From Purity Culture by Camden Morgante, broadly evangelical psychologist, for both those who stayed in that church and those who didn't.
December 20, 2024 at 9:22 PM
For all those looking for last-minute gifts, here are 5 books (one a day!) I'm enjoying or looking forward to reading in the near future:
Day 3: Enjoying Recovery From Purity Culture by Camden Morgante, broadly evangelical psychologist, for both those who stayed in that church and those who didn't.
Day 3: Enjoying Recovery From Purity Culture by Camden Morgante, broadly evangelical psychologist, for both those who stayed in that church and those who didn't.
For all those looking for last-minute gifts, here are 5 books (one a day!) I'm enjoying or looking forward to reading in the near future:
Day 2: Looking forward to @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social's The Mary We Forgot because I have always loved Mary Magdalene's designation Apostle to the Apostles!
Day 2: Looking forward to @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social's The Mary We Forgot because I have always loved Mary Magdalene's designation Apostle to the Apostles!
December 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
For all those looking for last-minute gifts, here are 5 books (one a day!) I'm enjoying or looking forward to reading in the near future:
Day 2: Looking forward to @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social's The Mary We Forgot because I have always loved Mary Magdalene's designation Apostle to the Apostles!
Day 2: Looking forward to @jpowellmcnutt.bsky.social's The Mary We Forgot because I have always loved Mary Magdalene's designation Apostle to the Apostles!