Best department ever having the best time ever at #SSS2024 with our amazing students, Gerardo Martí • Threads Insta ⁦• bsky gerardomarti J. Piko Ewoodzie, Dr. Marchia and Dr. President Gayle Kaufman.

There was a brief karaoke of 22 by Taylor Swift in honor of our graduating seniors. I will leave it there! 😂

NYT tosses off quick story on “How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement” nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/…

👉 Dig into a much deeper, more substantive resource • Only grows more relevant amazon.com/American-Blind…

Join us for the #SSSR_RRA2024 annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA ➡️ Religion: Past, Present, and Future.

🗓️⏳Only three days left to submit your paper session, book panel or individual proposal for the March 31st deadline.

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➡️Religion: Past, Present, and Future

➡️Explore the full Call for Papers for the #SSSR_RRA2024 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.

➡️Submit paper sessions (3-4 presentations), individual proposals, or proposals for book panels (author + 3-4 panelists).

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Trump can’t afford this, but you can!

American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency
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— Robert Wuthnow

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Sociologists—by giving voice to collective experiences—are essential to the church's work. Now, Bruce brings her expertise & data as one of six new consultors named to the Vatican's General Secretariat of the Synod.
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

March 18, 2024 12pm to 1:00pm webinar on Religious Freedom to explore what religious freedom means to both dominant & subordinate religious groups

FREE Just send email to [email protected] by Fri March 15 with 'Religious Freedom Webinar' in subject line

Glad to have this piece out in the world. I appreciate Aja D. and Erica Bree Edwards, Ph.D. for their editorial leadership of this special issue in Urban Education!

doi.org/10.1177/004208…

I was gonna mention this The New York Times story about the GOP nominee for governor here in North Carolina, but Will beat me to it. If you only read that story, you'd have no idea how extreme Robinson is, how ugly and racist and antisemitic and anti-trans he's been for a really long time.

NEW ✨
Just Published Penn Press

Proud of our chapter on public schools, CRT, and the Christian Right • How Trump refueled family values politics

'What struck me about this man—married, a father, a church member, a teacher—was his absolute earnestness...What would close observation of antiracism as a congregational project among white progressive Christians reveal?'
Insights from Gerardo Martí • Threads Insta ⁦• bsky gerardomarti: doi.org/10.1093/socrel…

Planning paper sessions, book panels or individual proposals for #SSSR_RRA2024 ?

We invite proposals that draw us to revisit the past, insightfully engage the present, or provocatively consider the future on matters both intimate and global.

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Manisha Sinha PBS NewsHour ICYMI
#SCOTUS #14thAmendment
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Also catch my interview with her and other historians who submitted an amicus brief on this historic case - link pinned to my page.

youtube.com/watch?v=Tbzo8P…

COMING 2025 👏👏👏

📚 Our biography of Robert H. Schuller 📚

💫 Megachurch pastor of The Crystal Cathedral
💫 Television preacher of Hour of Power

✨ Now IN PRESS ✨

Library of Religious Biography Series
Eerdmans Publishing 👀

Also: it’s going to be published on the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation