Dr_F_Stewart (She/her)
@drfstewart.bsky.social
Sociologist of Religion: punk rock and anarchist subcultures; sXe punk; sound, music and orality; identity in Northern Ireland; sociology of disability; religion and popular culture. Implicit Religion.
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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Replies hidden w/o consent, allow for bullying and swarming (w/ follower hacking) w/o any capacity to understand that it is happening. This "feature" allows the ugly behavior left on twitter to surface here w/ the "advantage" of the target unable to know that their posts are being hijacked by trolls
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
Hiding replies without my consent is *dangerous to me*
I use the mute function extremely carefully for a reason
I need to know if people are being violent at me so I can take action to protect myself
I need to be able to choose for myself who hidden
@pfrazee.com
Hiding replies without my consent is *dangerous to me*
I use the mute function extremely carefully for a reason
I need to know if people are being violent at me so I can take action to protect myself
I need to be able to choose for myself who hidden
@pfrazee.com
Thanks I hate it.
Also like I enjoy artisinal blocking, and I want to know if people are saying toxic things to me so I can deny them access to my posts in the future???
Also like I enjoy artisinal blocking, and I want to know if people are saying toxic things to me so I can deny them access to my posts in the future???
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Replies hidden w/o consent, allow for bullying and swarming (w/ follower hacking) w/o any capacity to understand that it is happening. This "feature" allows the ugly behavior left on twitter to surface here w/ the "advantage" of the target unable to know that their posts are being hijacked by trolls
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My virtual Halloween costume, "the Mad Social Scientist" is my annual homage to Professor Melvin Fenwick (and Gary Larson)
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My virtual Halloween costume, "the Mad Social Scientist" is my annual homage to Professor Melvin Fenwick (and Gary Larson)
I've spent the last year working with an incredible group of people. Training them in how to undertake oral history interviews to gather local stories before they are gone. Together we've made a documentary being screened locally, for free, on 3rd Nov.
www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/2557664...
www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/2557664...
New Alloa documentary captures history of the town
A group of Alloa women have put together a documentary focusing on the history of the town in a post-industrial time.
www.alloaadvertiser.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've spent the last year working with an incredible group of people. Training them in how to undertake oral history interviews to gather local stories before they are gone. Together we've made a documentary being screened locally, for free, on 3rd Nov.
www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/2557664...
www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/2557664...
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Join us tomorrow for a discussion on religion, race, and doing public facing scholarship in these fascist times.
Register now for our webinAAR happening tomorrow (October 24) at noon (12 PM ET) on "Religion, Race, and Public Scholarship, where several scholars of Asian American religions will examine the intersections of religion, race, and public scholarship in the United States. aarweb.org/event/religi...
October 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Join us tomorrow for a discussion on religion, race, and doing public facing scholarship in these fascist times.
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I am convening the Religious Studies panel, the call for which can be found here: www.isrlc.org/religious-st...
Religious Studies Panel — ISRLC
www.isrlc.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I am convening the Religious Studies panel, the call for which can be found here: www.isrlc.org/religious-st...
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The CFP for the 2026 meeting of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (Stirling, UK, 10-13 September) is now live. Abstracts of no more than 350 words due 31 January.
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
ISRLC Conference — ISRLC
www.isrlc.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The CFP for the 2026 meeting of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (Stirling, UK, 10-13 September) is now live. Abstracts of no more than 350 words due 31 January.
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
www.isrlc.org/isrlc-confer...
This 👇 💯
"Ultimately, we gain less from asking ourselves whether Columbus might have been Jewish than from asking why some might be eager to put distance between Columbus and Christianity." @samirakmehta.bsky.social in @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/the-problems...
religiondispatches.org/the-problems...
New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There's a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With
Speculations that Italian Americans’ problematic hero, Christopher Columbus, might have actually been Jewish were all over the news this month, with coverage ranging from NPR to the BBC to The Times o...
religiondispatches.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This 👇 💯
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“Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies...we are called to defend and guarantee it”
“Current events call for particular discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking”
“Current events call for particular discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking”
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
“Free access to information is a pillar that upholds the edifice of our societies...we are called to defend and guarantee it”
“Current events call for particular discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking”
“Current events call for particular discernment and responsibility, and it is clear that the media has a crucial role in forming consciences and helping critical thinking”
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Please note:
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The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Please note:
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This is also a geographically transplanted, verbatim white Christian nationalist talking point, used in the U.S. for decades.
See @candidamoss.bsky.social's work on the white Christian nationalist rhetorical strategy of self-identification as victims and martyrs
See @candidamoss.bsky.social's work on the white Christian nationalist rhetorical strategy of self-identification as victims and martyrs
This is a bald-faced lie. According to 2024 stats from Statistics Canada, just over 85% of reported hate crimes were against Jews (68%) and Muslims (17%).
October 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This is also a geographically transplanted, verbatim white Christian nationalist talking point, used in the U.S. for decades.
See @candidamoss.bsky.social's work on the white Christian nationalist rhetorical strategy of self-identification as victims and martyrs
See @candidamoss.bsky.social's work on the white Christian nationalist rhetorical strategy of self-identification as victims and martyrs
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Also exceedingly rare for a court to cite Schragger, Schwartzman, and Tebbe, but lo and behold.
Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
September 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Also exceedingly rare for a court to cite Schragger, Schwartzman, and Tebbe, but lo and behold.
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For more on this, read
1) @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
One Nation Under God
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
2) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
Gospel According to the Klan
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/
White Collar Supremacy
www.kellyjbaker.com/writing/whit...
1) @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
One Nation Under God
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
2) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
Gospel According to the Klan
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/
White Collar Supremacy
www.kellyjbaker.com/writing/whit...
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For more on this, read
1) @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
One Nation Under God
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
2) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
Gospel According to the Klan
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/
White Collar Supremacy
www.kellyjbaker.com/writing/whit...
1) @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
One Nation Under God
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin...
2) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social
Gospel According to the Klan
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700624478/
White Collar Supremacy
www.kellyjbaker.com/writing/whit...
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Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died
YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848
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September 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Its particularly & grotesquely offensive that Brooks cites this white Christian Nationalist fascist of a sociologist of religion, to claim social scientists do not study culture.
This is fallacious reasoning at best from Brooks. The social sciences does study culture! Social scientists are not more materialistic (elsewhere) in article because they document inequality and structural failures
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Its particularly & grotesquely offensive that Brooks cites this white Christian Nationalist fascist of a sociologist of religion, to claim social scientists do not study culture.
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Church doesn't belong in air quotes. Christian Missionary Colonialism committed variations on these acts openly & globally.
The indictment said Taylor believed that "if an individual fails to obey his orders and commands, they are defying God and will suffer in Hell"
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The indictment said Taylor believed that "if an individual fails to obey his orders and commands, they are defying God and will suffer in Hell"
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
'Church' leaders arrested in alleged trafficking ring that solicited $50M in donations
A trafficking ring forced call center workers to solicit donations under the guise that they were working for a religious ministry, prosecutors say.
www.yahoo.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Church doesn't belong in air quotes. Christian Missionary Colonialism committed variations on these acts openly & globally.
The indictment said Taylor believed that "if an individual fails to obey his orders and commands, they are defying God and will suffer in Hell"
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The indictment said Taylor believed that "if an individual fails to obey his orders and commands, they are defying God and will suffer in Hell"
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Nail on the fucking head.
August 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nail on the fucking head.
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Another heartbreaking story about a young person who confided in ChatGPT before committing suicide, sensitively reported by @kashhill.bsky.social. It has led to the first known case to be brought against OpenAI for wrongful death. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Another heartbreaking story about a young person who confided in ChatGPT before committing suicide, sensitively reported by @kashhill.bsky.social. It has led to the first known case to be brought against OpenAI for wrongful death. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
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"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
August 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts.
By @jwhendricks.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
By @jwhendricks.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
August 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts.
By @jwhendricks.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
By @jwhendricks.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
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Reestablishing Religion was selected for this series because it is enormously to useful researchers, teachers or journalists covering religion in the US, white Christian Nationalism, religion & law, or religion & nationalist/authoritarian movements in other parts of the world.
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"Reestablishing Religion" A Conversation w/ @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social
Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives prt 4
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August 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reestablishing Religion was selected for this series because it is enormously to useful researchers, teachers or journalists covering religion in the US, white Christian Nationalism, religion & law, or religion & nationalist/authoritarian movements in other parts of the world.
Join us.
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Good morning to everyone in the UK who is either protesting the Couch fetishist, or refusing to cooperate with any of the invasive nonsense done in the name of accommodating his security.
Say WHAT?!!
JD Vance's secret service has been knocking on doors in the Cotswolds and asking people for the names of everybody living in the house and details of their social media.
Several people refused.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
JD Vance's secret service has been knocking on doors in the Cotswolds and asking people for the names of everybody living in the house and details of their social media.
Several people refused.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
JD Vance’s holiday brings ‘circus’ of police patrols to sleepy Cotswolds village
Residents in the vicinity of the 6-acre site have described road blocks coming into place as the US vice president spends time in their village
www.independent.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Good morning to everyone in the UK who is either protesting the Couch fetishist, or refusing to cooperate with any of the invasive nonsense done in the name of accommodating his security.
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**previously** a world class institution.
I'm not the parent of a current or entering undergraduate student, but I'd be considering suing for fraud, with this bit of bait and switch.
I'm not the parent of a current or entering undergraduate student, but I'd be considering suing for fraud, with this bit of bait and switch.
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
**previously** a world class institution.
I'm not the parent of a current or entering undergraduate student, but I'd be considering suing for fraud, with this bit of bait and switch.
I'm not the parent of a current or entering undergraduate student, but I'd be considering suing for fraud, with this bit of bait and switch.
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Monday 18 Aug 2025
10:00-11:30 AM CST | -6 UTC
"Reestablishing Religion" A Conversation w/ @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social & @nelsontebbe.bsky.social
Religion, Authoritarianism & Public Narratives prt 4
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July 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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It's HERE! It arrived!
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature by @vox-magica.bsky.social arrived today!
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature by @vox-magica.bsky.social arrived today!
August 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It's HERE! It arrived!
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature by @vox-magica.bsky.social arrived today!
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature by @vox-magica.bsky.social arrived today!