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How did the Gaza fighting end? My comments based on studies of similar cases. Intervention from the outside by armies or mediators are seldom the sole cause, however. juergensmeyer.org/how-the-gaza...
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How did the Gaza fighting end? My comments based on studies of similar cases. Intervention from the outside by armies or mediators are seldom the sole cause, however. juergensmeyer.org/how-the-gaza...
I'm on Substack. I'll be posting the kind of commentary on religion and global society that I've been doing on my webblog at www.juergensmeyer.org. But you can subscribe to the Substack series, which makes the posts harder to avoid. Here's the link:
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markjuergensmeyer.substack.com/p/62123776-1...
RELIGION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN A GLOBAL WORLD | Mark Juergensmeyer
www.juergensmeyer.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I'm on Substack. I'll be posting the kind of commentary on religion and global society that I've been doing on my webblog at www.juergensmeyer.org. But you can subscribe to the Substack series, which makes the posts harder to avoid. Here's the link:
markjuergensmeyer.substack.com/p/62123776-1...
markjuergensmeyer.substack.com/p/62123776-1...
Putin Made a Fool Out of Trump--Now What? My blog post today saying despite Trump's hopes, Putin simply said that Ukraine is a part of Russia. End of story. Now that Trump has been made a fool, will he change tactics and try to strengthen Ukraine?
juergensmeyer.org/putin-made-a...
juergensmeyer.org/putin-made-a...
August 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Putin Made a Fool Out of Trump--Now What? My blog post today saying despite Trump's hopes, Putin simply said that Ukraine is a part of Russia. End of story. Now that Trump has been made a fool, will he change tactics and try to strengthen Ukraine?
juergensmeyer.org/putin-made-a...
juergensmeyer.org/putin-made-a...
Podcast discussion on religion and politics in the Middle East with me and my colleague John Esposito. It was a good discussion, I think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ea...
Episode 72 - No Such Thing as A Muslim Ummah | Esposito & Juergensmeyer in Conversation
YouTube video by Kianistan
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August 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Podcast discussion on religion and politics in the Middle East with me and my colleague John Esposito. It was a good discussion, I think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ea...
Chief of War-- the amazing new movie by Jason Momoa giving a Hawaiian perspective on King Kamehameha and the unification of the islands. This preview is by my friend and colleague, Kainoa Horcajo in his webblog transmitting native Hawaiian values.
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preview.mailerlite.io/.../1079372/...
July 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Chief of War-- the amazing new movie by Jason Momoa giving a Hawaiian perspective on King Kamehameha and the unification of the islands. This preview is by my friend and colleague, Kainoa Horcajo in his webblog transmitting native Hawaiian values.
preview.mailerlite.io/.../1079372/...
preview.mailerlite.io/.../1079372/...
Fox Snooze - I've been reading the Fox News website so you don't have to. What I've found is...nothing. An incredible absence of news. See the report on my blog post-
juergensmeyer.org/fox-snooze/
juergensmeyer.org/fox-snooze/
July 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Fox Snooze - I've been reading the Fox News website so you don't have to. What I've found is...nothing. An incredible absence of news. See the report on my blog post-
juergensmeyer.org/fox-snooze/
juergensmeyer.org/fox-snooze/
An excerpt of my comments on Central Coast California TV on the consequences of US involvement in Israel's war with Iran. keyt.com/politics/202...
UC Santa Barbara Global Studies Professor weighs in on the threat of a “looming war with Iran” | News Channel 3-12
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — UC Santa Barbara Global Studies Professor, Mark Juergensmeyer, says that a potential war could jeopardize the safety of every day
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June 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
An excerpt of my comments on Central Coast California TV on the consequences of US involvement in Israel's war with Iran. keyt.com/politics/202...
No Kings Rally in Maui- over 5000 lined the main street between Kahului and Wailuku, paradoxically in front of a malll named in honor of a Queen, Kaahumanu.
June 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
No Kings Rally in Maui- over 5000 lined the main street between Kahului and Wailuku, paradoxically in front of a malll named in honor of a Queen, Kaahumanu.
What's after the Ayatollah-- if the US or Israel knocked him out? My speculation today on my webblog-https://juergensmeyer.org/after-the-ayatollah/
June 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
What's after the Ayatollah-- if the US or Israel knocked him out? My speculation today on my webblog-https://juergensmeyer.org/after-the-ayatollah/
Attack on Area Studies -- Among the horrible things in Trump's budget bill is ending federal funding for area studies programs and fellowships-- the very things that enabled my grad school and launched my academic career. This is personal, as I recount in this post. juergensmeyer.org/attack-on-ar...
June 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Attack on Area Studies -- Among the horrible things in Trump's budget bill is ending federal funding for area studies programs and fellowships-- the very things that enabled my grad school and launched my academic career. This is personal, as I recount in this post. juergensmeyer.org/attack-on-ar...
It's out! The updated new edition of God at War with an arresting red cover. Great summer reading for $20 at Oxford University Press - or get the audio version and lie in the sun. You can read the new preface on my webblog site- www.juergensmeyer.org
May 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's out! The updated new edition of God at War with an arresting red cover. Great summer reading for $20 at Oxford University Press - or get the audio version and lie in the sun. You can read the new preface on my webblog site- www.juergensmeyer.org
Terrorism Comes Home -- my comments on this weekend's Palm Springs bombing and how it fits the pattern of terrorist acts, posted today on my webblog. juergensmeyer.org/terrorism-co...
May 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Terrorism Comes Home -- my comments on this weekend's Palm Springs bombing and how it fits the pattern of terrorist acts, posted today on my webblog. juergensmeyer.org/terrorism-co...
An interview I did on Think Globally podcast for e-international relations on global religion and politics. It includes a discussion of religion and violence, globalization, and the rise of authoritarian nationalism.
open.spotify.com/episode/76Np...
open.spotify.com/episode/76Np...
Mark Juergensmeyer on Religion and Global Politics
Thinking Global · Episode
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May 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
An interview I did on Think Globally podcast for e-international relations on global religion and politics. It includes a discussion of religion and violence, globalization, and the rise of authoritarian nationalism.
open.spotify.com/episode/76Np...
open.spotify.com/episode/76Np...
My comments on the new Cold War between democracy and autocracy posted today on my webblog. juergensmeyer.org/new-cold-war/
May 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My comments on the new Cold War between democracy and autocracy posted today on my webblog. juergensmeyer.org/new-cold-war/
Big rally in Palm Springs today with Rep Robert Garcia of Long Beach as the crowd-pleasing speaker. I got nice comments both for my sign and my t-shirt!
May 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Big rally in Palm Springs today with Rep Robert Garcia of Long Beach as the crowd-pleasing speaker. I got nice comments both for my sign and my t-shirt!
Bishop Budde of Washington DC gave a riveting and inspiring message of courage and hope in our troubled times, accepting our invitation to inaugurate the lecture series honoring the great sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah. Here's a link to her talk: www.youtube.com/live/HsynDr_...
Robert N. Bellah Lecture on Religion and Public Life
YouTube video by Graduate Theological Union
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April 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Bishop Budde of Washington DC gave a riveting and inspiring message of courage and hope in our troubled times, accepting our invitation to inaugurate the lecture series honoring the great sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah. Here's a link to her talk: www.youtube.com/live/HsynDr_...
Just got back to California in time for the big Hands Off protest in Palm Springs, where 2-3000 people gathered against the Musk firings and the Trump tariffs. My sign has a biblical theme in recognition that a group from our community church was in the crowd.
April 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just got back to California in time for the big Hands Off protest in Palm Springs, where 2-3000 people gathered against the Musk firings and the Trump tariffs. My sign has a biblical theme in recognition that a group from our community church was in the crowd.
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"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen...
"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...
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"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...
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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen...
"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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"Core prices ticked up another 0.4%, higher than the January increase.
"The increase, which was more than what economists had expected, was driven by a rise in prices for everyday items, suggesting Mr. Trump’s tariffs are starting to have a more notable impact. .."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
"The increase, which was more than what economists had expected, was driven by a rise in prices for everyday items, suggesting Mr. Trump’s tariffs are starting to have a more notable impact. .."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
Inflation Remained Sticky Ahead of Trump’s Escalating Trade War, PCE Data Shows
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure showed underlying price pressures persisting in February, as inflation-adjusted spending stayed muted.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Core prices ticked up another 0.4%, higher than the January increase.
"The increase, which was more than what economists had expected, was driven by a rise in prices for everyday items, suggesting Mr. Trump’s tariffs are starting to have a more notable impact. .."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
"The increase, which was more than what economists had expected, was driven by a rise in prices for everyday items, suggesting Mr. Trump’s tariffs are starting to have a more notable impact. .."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
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Why aren’t you wearing a suit?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
March 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why aren’t you wearing a suit?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Think Hawai'ian -- a thoughtful primer on Native Hawai'ian ideas from my neighbor in Maui, Kainoa Horcajo, a kahuna in the native tradition. Here's this week's meditation on the meaning of "pono."
preview.mailerlite.io
preview.mailerlite.io
preview.mailerlite.io
April 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Think Hawai'ian -- a thoughtful primer on Native Hawai'ian ideas from my neighbor in Maui, Kainoa Horcajo, a kahuna in the native tradition. Here's this week's meditation on the meaning of "pono."
preview.mailerlite.io
preview.mailerlite.io
"The Fall of the US Institute of Peace"-- my reflections on the Trump and DOGE destruction of an important agency, one that provided the first funding for my decades long research into religious violence, nationalism and terrorism around the world.
juergensmeyer.org/fall-of-the-...
juergensmeyer.org/fall-of-the-...
March 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"The Fall of the US Institute of Peace"-- my reflections on the Trump and DOGE destruction of an important agency, one that provided the first funding for my decades long research into religious violence, nationalism and terrorism around the world.
juergensmeyer.org/fall-of-the-...
juergensmeyer.org/fall-of-the-...
My Brush with Intel Security, posted below, on how US intel agencies subjected me to a ridiculous amount of security precautions -- all ignored by the recent chat room discussion of a military operation on a commercial app. What a bunch of amateurs! juergensmeyer.org/my-brush-wit...
My Brush with Intel Security | RELIGION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN A GLOBAL WORLD
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March 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
My Brush with Intel Security, posted below, on how US intel agencies subjected me to a ridiculous amount of security precautions -- all ignored by the recent chat room discussion of a military operation on a commercial app. What a bunch of amateurs! juergensmeyer.org/my-brush-wit...
Bishop Budde has graciously agreed to inaugurate the lecture series honoring the great sociologist of religion, Robt Bellah. As co-convenor of the Bellah Legacy Group it has been a pleasure working with her. To register to attend or watch it live stream, sign up on Everbrite: bit.ly/3Dqnjjk
March 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bishop Budde has graciously agreed to inaugurate the lecture series honoring the great sociologist of religion, Robt Bellah. As co-convenor of the Bellah Legacy Group it has been a pleasure working with her. To register to attend or watch it live stream, sign up on Everbrite: bit.ly/3Dqnjjk