Hank Owings
@hankowings.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ UPenn / Political Theory, Religion, Conservatism / First-gen from rural Ohio / Bahá’í
Currently finishing up (for fun):
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Currently finishing up (for fun):
Philadelphia in the summer
June 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Philadelphia in the summer
Kenneth Bowers, a long-serving member of the Assembly, knows personally the effects of social injustice.
Here’s our current NSA, elected yesterday. Bowers if fourth on the left.
Here’s our current NSA, elected yesterday. Bowers if fourth on the left.
April 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Kenneth Bowers, a long-serving member of the Assembly, knows personally the effects of social injustice.
Here’s our current NSA, elected yesterday. Bowers if fourth on the left.
Here’s our current NSA, elected yesterday. Bowers if fourth on the left.
Also recommend; these are the kind of principles we should be advocating for on our campuses!
April 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Also recommend; these are the kind of principles we should be advocating for on our campuses!
Reading for a project I’m working on and the chapter on American fascism begins with the second KKK. I just taught Hiram Evans to undergraduates last week and was wondering why it’s not more common to identify fascism earlier than just before WWII!
April 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reading for a project I’m working on and the chapter on American fascism begins with the second KKK. I just taught Hiram Evans to undergraduates last week and was wondering why it’s not more common to identify fascism earlier than just before WWII!
Happy Ridván, the holiest holiday period of the Bahá’í Faith, when Bahá’u’lláh declared himself a Manifestation of God in Baghdad.
Here’s some of the wisdom of our international leaders on economic and racial justice.
Here’s some of the wisdom of our international leaders on economic and racial justice.
April 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Happy Ridván, the holiest holiday period of the Bahá’í Faith, when Bahá’u’lláh declared himself a Manifestation of God in Baghdad.
Here’s some of the wisdom of our international leaders on economic and racial justice.
Here’s some of the wisdom of our international leaders on economic and racial justice.
One thing I like about this recently translated passage by Bahá’u’lláh is that “tyranny” here implies an abuse of power men hold over women, “the handmaidens of God,” contrary to “equity” and “justice.” It anticipates the critique of “patriarchy” almost a century later.
April 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
One thing I like about this recently translated passage by Bahá’u’lláh is that “tyranny” here implies an abuse of power men hold over women, “the handmaidens of God,” contrary to “equity” and “justice.” It anticipates the critique of “patriarchy” almost a century later.
waiting for the end of grading
March 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
waiting for the end of grading
These passages from Shoghi Effendi’s The Advent of Divine Justice, a letter he wrote to the American Bahá’í community in 1938, Justice seem all the more relevant nearly a century after they were written.
January 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
These passages from Shoghi Effendi’s The Advent of Divine Justice, a letter he wrote to the American Bahá’í community in 1938, Justice seem all the more relevant nearly a century after they were written.
Finished this text today, which in many ways seems to be a thematic sequel to her previous Strangers in Their Own Land.
January 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Finished this text today, which in many ways seems to be a thematic sequel to her previous Strangers in Their Own Land.
Although I also started this Jan 1, but I’ll return to it after I finish Arrighi:
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Although I also started this Jan 1, but I’ll return to it after I finish Arrighi:
First read of 2025:
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
First read of 2025:
Pleasure reading goal for the upcoming semester: all of Wallerstein’s World-System
December 29, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Pleasure reading goal for the upcoming semester: all of Wallerstein’s World-System
A few of the many things — including holiday purchases — I’ll be reading (for fun and for pedagogy) in 2025
December 27, 2024 at 1:29 AM
A few of the many things — including holiday purchases — I’ll be reading (for fun and for pedagogy) in 2025
Can you guess the general topic of my dissertation?
December 4, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Can you guess the general topic of my dissertation?
He further states to the UN that our only concern at that time was safeguarding “the spiritual and administrative world center of a world Faith” in Haifa and Acca
November 21, 2024 at 4:21 PM
He further states to the UN that our only concern at that time was safeguarding “the spiritual and administrative world center of a world Faith” in Haifa and Acca
Second, Because of His exile and death, Baha’u’llah’s shrine is in Acca, Israel, just north of Haifa. Bahá’ís perform our obligatory prayers facing this direction, just as Muslims do to Mecca.
November 21, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Second, Because of His exile and death, Baha’u’llah’s shrine is in Acca, Israel, just north of Haifa. Bahá’ís perform our obligatory prayers facing this direction, just as Muslims do to Mecca.
Teaching this for an hour and a half tomorrow. Really looking forward to student discussion!
November 19, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Teaching this for an hour and a half tomorrow. Really looking forward to student discussion!
June 12, 2024 at 5:32 PM
First chapter sent to my committee and uploaded to the Political Theology conference. I can spend this evening relaxing before classes tomorrow!
August 28, 2023 at 6:07 PM
First chapter sent to my committee and uploaded to the Political Theology conference. I can spend this evening relaxing before classes tomorrow!