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The official site for Implicit Religion, encompassing the Edward Bailey Research Centre, the Implicit Religion UK Conference, and the Implicit Religion US workshop and conference.
The extensive effects framework is an elegant way to reveal the interconnected nature of human experiences & their far reaching impacts on social structures & systems of power. But, there's significant challenges in establishing clear causal links in a phenomena & their extensive effects. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
That's why it's only white people who tell Black people to stop living in the past / get over slavery, as if the tendrils of slavery don't reach into the present. For many whites they don't, because we've created the discipline of history in such a way that we don't have to see the tendrils. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The history of Blackness in America is the history of the right to exist alongside everyone else in the future. For Black America, past, present & future continually exist at the same time. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Humans continuously seek new ways of finding meaning, understanding the world, & making commitments. These things in turn take on lives of their own and shape the world we live in, in our collective futures. Which is a really threatening prospect if we let them remain unconscious and unnamed. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
History, Society & culture are constructions that continually evolve, adapt, & renegotiate themselves, especially as we name them. Bailey's concept of implicit religion suggests that the search for meaning in life is not at the hinge of post/modernism. Nor is it dictated by religion. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
West Africa had brought the slave trade to a standstill, and the fanatical British naval captain Challoner Ogle tasked with their eradication to preserve the trade. #IR47

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Pirates of the Slave Trade - Prometheus Books
No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fier...
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May 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@drangelasutton.bsky.social book is about the 1722 Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of Gabon in West Africa. The culmination of a years long cat & mouse chase between the fleet of Golden Age pirates whose marauding in
May 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Pirates came from all nations, colonies, ethnicities, genders. Every empire or proto empire & their national trading companies were concerned about the problem. This generated many boxes in the National Archives of each of these countries of complaints & debates on what to do about pirates. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
People being overworked & underpaid. Little rest until their broken bodies eventually gave out, a built in function of late stage capitalism. Therefore structural, yet we describe it as individualised & shift the blame & burden onto individuals & creating so-called solutions or punishments. #IR47
May 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM