Daniel Cueto-Villalobos
@dacuetovilla.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 phd candidate & teacher at UMN sociology | race, religion, culture, and institutional reckoning | loves trains, planes, a well-paved running path & mexican food | californian in the upper midwest
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“There Wasn’t A Playbook For This”: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020
Abstract. Using 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, this paper highlights how religious congregations made se
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October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The unique pressures of 2020 forced leaders to innovate + adapt on the fly. As one leader put it, "there wasn't a playbook for this." Some adapted established routines while others rethought taken-for-granted approaches to spiritual care, fellowship, outreach + church growth.
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The unique pressures of 2020 forced leaders to innovate + adapt on the fly. As one leader put it, "there wasn't a playbook for this." Some adapted established routines while others rethought taken-for-granted approaches to spiritual care, fellowship, outreach + church growth.
Organizational resources, location, faith tradition, and partisanship (both among local electeds + members) shaped the distinct ways faith communities experienced and made sense of the unfolding crises + climate of polarization.
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Organizational resources, location, faith tradition, and partisanship (both among local electeds + members) shaped the distinct ways faith communities experienced and made sense of the unfolding crises + climate of polarization.
@proflauragil.bsky.social, @pennye.bsky.social + I spent 18 months observing MN churches as they rebounded from COVID + the 2020 racial justice protests. We identify 3 approaches leaders used to shore up member loyalty + comply with external directives: Introspection, Avoidance + Mobilization.
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
@proflauragil.bsky.social, @pennye.bsky.social + I spent 18 months observing MN churches as they rebounded from COVID + the 2020 racial justice protests. We identify 3 approaches leaders used to shore up member loyalty + comply with external directives: Introspection, Avoidance + Mobilization.
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My argument: not everybody on the right is personally religious, but the right inspires religious thinking in its people.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
September 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My argument: not everybody on the right is personally religious, but the right inspires religious thinking in its people.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.