Christine L. Cusack, PhD
@christine-l-cusack.bsky.social
Communicating ideas to better the world. Research focus: Sociology, sociology of religion and social movements. Pondering our shared 🌎 🌳🍂🌲 | she/her/elle
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My review of John Turner’s excellent new bio (published by Yale) on Mormon founder Joseph Smith www.commonwealmagazine.org/leveraging-b...
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My review of John Turner’s excellent new bio (published by Yale) on Mormon founder Joseph Smith www.commonwealmagazine.org/leveraging-b...
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Reposted by Christine L. Cusack, PhD
How to save a world – Rachel Carson's advice to posterity www.themarginalian.org/2019/04/12/r...
How to Save a World: Rachel Carson’s Advice to Posterity
“Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself.”
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September 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
How to save a world – Rachel Carson's advice to posterity www.themarginalian.org/2019/04/12/r...
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Really enjoying this new Oxford UP book by one of my Princeton grad school mentors, @rwuth.bsky.social, who is as prolific as ever in retirement. Adept at both history and sociology, he shows how different leaders and groups cultivated happiness as a religious practice. @princetonccsr.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Really enjoying this new Oxford UP book by one of my Princeton grad school mentors, @rwuth.bsky.social, who is as prolific as ever in retirement. Adept at both history and sociology, he shows how different leaders and groups cultivated happiness as a religious practice. @princetonccsr.bsky.social
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"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers!
Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡
Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!
Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡
Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!
June 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers!
Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡
Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!
Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡
Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!
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The preliminary program for the #SSSR_RRA2025 Annual Meeting happening October 31-November 2, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is now available. Explore the wide spectrum of topics around this year's theme: Religion Matters.
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ #Religion #SocialScience
www.sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ #Religion #SocialScience
www.sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...
August 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The preliminary program for the #SSSR_RRA2025 Annual Meeting happening October 31-November 2, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is now available. Explore the wide spectrum of topics around this year's theme: Religion Matters.
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ #Religion #SocialScience
www.sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...
⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ #Religion #SocialScience
www.sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...
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'You Blew Me Away 8' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from upcycled scrap metal, to create a piece which signifies renewed life and energy #womensart
June 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
'You Blew Me Away 8' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from upcycled scrap metal, to create a piece which signifies renewed life and energy #womensart
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The SSSR Is Looking for its next Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the @jssreligion.bsky.social, to begin service in January 2026, for a four-year term. Join us in advancing knowledge and public understanding of #Religion. Learn more ⬇️ sssreligion.org/announcement...
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Click on the title to browse this journal
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June 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The SSSR Is Looking for its next Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the @jssreligion.bsky.social, to begin service in January 2026, for a four-year term. Join us in advancing knowledge and public understanding of #Religion. Learn more ⬇️ sssreligion.org/announcement...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468...
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📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...
May 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...
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In sperm whale pods, mothers spent most of their time hunting in deep water where their babies can’t follow. The solution: babysitters!
Carl Safina writes on witnessing sperm whale "mother culture."
orionmagazine.org/article/moth...
Carl Safina writes on witnessing sperm whale "mother culture."
orionmagazine.org/article/moth...
May 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In sperm whale pods, mothers spent most of their time hunting in deep water where their babies can’t follow. The solution: babysitters!
Carl Safina writes on witnessing sperm whale "mother culture."
orionmagazine.org/article/moth...
Carl Safina writes on witnessing sperm whale "mother culture."
orionmagazine.org/article/moth...
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Thrilled to hear that poet Marie Howe has just won the Pulitzer. She is not a national, not an international, but an intergalactic treasure, and her poem "Singularity" is one of the greatest poems ever written: www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/s...
Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short Film
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Remember?”
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May 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Thrilled to hear that poet Marie Howe has just won the Pulitzer. She is not a national, not an international, but an intergalactic treasure, and her poem "Singularity" is one of the greatest poems ever written: www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/s...
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Forms of love – philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who turns 78 today, on the deepest significance of our political emotions
Forms of Love: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the Deeper Significance of Our Political Emotions
“We need … to investigate, and to cherish, whatever helps us to see the uneven and often unlovely destiny of human beings in the world with humor, tenderness, and delight, rather than w…
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May 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Forms of love – philosopher Martha Nussbaum, who turns 78 today, on the deepest significance of our political emotions
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In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I shared the morning of my fortieth birthday. They are now a book of cards:
An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days
In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I ori…
www.themarginalian.org
April 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In nearly two decades of The Marginalian, nothing has stirred a more passionate response from readers than the strangest, most sidewise, most private of my labors — the bird divinations I shared the morning of my fortieth birthday. They are now a book of cards:
“They wake up wondering if they are going to get answers that will help empower someone to communicate or live independently or be included in the same classroom or workplace with their peers.”
A research agenda to improve the lives of autistic people
Ari Ne’eman thinks autism research needs a big shake up—but not in the direction Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proposing.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“They wake up wondering if they are going to get answers that will help empower someone to communicate or live independently or be included in the same classroom or workplace with their peers.”
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Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other. 📖
How Poetry Changes You and Your Brain
Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
April 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other. 📖
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Using data from the 🇨🇭National Congregation Survey, Jeremy Senn & Jörg Stolz "propose that congregations typically first loosen their formal rules governing female access to leadership and only later allow women to occupy leadership positions in practice." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership
Article: The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership | Sociological Science | Posted March 20, 2025
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April 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Using data from the 🇨🇭National Congregation Survey, Jeremy Senn & Jörg Stolz "propose that congregations typically first loosen their formal rules governing female access to leadership and only later allow women to occupy leadership positions in practice." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
“This is WhaleSpotter, an artificial intelligence-powered whale detection system that aims to transmit real-time alerts to ships to prevent them from colliding with whales—a threat that leads to the injury or death of thousands of whales each year.” #Whales
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Ping, You’ve Got Whale
A new AI system alerts ship captains in real-time when a whale is in their path
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March 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“This is WhaleSpotter, an artificial intelligence-powered whale detection system that aims to transmit real-time alerts to ships to prevent them from colliding with whales—a threat that leads to the injury or death of thousands of whales each year.” #Whales
nautil.us/ping-youve-g...
nautil.us/ping-youve-g...
“Poetry is not a ‘specialised field.’ It has universal & eternal value. It is something that most people start writing when they are children. It is what humans read to each other at weddings & funerals.”
-Brenda Hillman
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-Brenda Hillman
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Dear emerging, pre-emerging & post-emerging poets, — TL/TH
tlth.co.uk
January 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“Poetry is not a ‘specialised field.’ It has universal & eternal value. It is something that most people start writing when they are children. It is what humans read to each other at weddings & funerals.”
-Brenda Hillman
tlth.co.uk/dearemerging...
-Brenda Hillman
tlth.co.uk/dearemerging...
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"In a country supposedly founded on religious freedom, it matters that our calendars make Christian ways of telling time invisible," write @mpgphd.bsky.social and @profirmf.bsky.social. "Attempts to normalize Christian assumptions as good old American values are cumulative." ow.ly/ntNx50UtxY2
Time Bandits: How Christianity Takes Your Time (and What It’s Doing with It)
Our new book, Religion Is Not Done With You, came out on Election Day—and what a day it was. We knew the title would be true no matter what happened, but YIKES. And sure enough, religion—specifically ...
ow.ly
December 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
"In a country supposedly founded on religious freedom, it matters that our calendars make Christian ways of telling time invisible," write @mpgphd.bsky.social and @profirmf.bsky.social. "Attempts to normalize Christian assumptions as good old American values are cumulative." ow.ly/ntNx50UtxY2
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In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth. Listen to “Practical Reverence.”
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
November 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth. Listen to “Practical Reverence.”
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
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"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer... feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of conversation
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of conversation
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…
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November 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer... feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of conversation
Ursula K. Le Guin on the magic of conversation