#Religidons: Scholars of Religion on Mastodon

This is a list of self-submitted information about scholars of religion (all disciplines, including theology and Biblical Studies) on the social network Mastodon, created to help us find each other.

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Thematic areas of interest (gender, digital religion, religion and violence, religion and the arts, etc.)?

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@amv@religion.masto.host

Modern (19th-21st century)

Popular culture, religion and the arts, interreligious dialogue, genocide

@themodsisyphus@mastodon.social

Critical theory, performance studies, ritual studies, and ethnographic approaches to religion in digital contexts

Hinduism, Digital Religion, and Critical Theory

Ancient texts and contemporary politics

Digital Religion, hate politics online, performance, ritual

I’m a scholar of performance, ritual, online hate politics and digital publics on South Asia.

@jasongoroncy@scholar.social

Late modern, Contemporary

Australia, New Zealand, Pacific, SE Asia, Europe

Religion and the arts, death, trauma, political philosophy, public theology

Associate Professor of Theology, University of Divinity

@ichatterjea@mstdn.social

U.S. Religion (#AmRel), Black Religion, Qualitative Methodologies, Religion and Human Rights, Authoritarian Movements

Religion and Violence, Religion and Law,

@adlobdel@scholar.social

Judaism; history of science (astronomy, astrology, cosmogony, cosmology, mathematics, knowledge transmission), magic; space exploration, AI, and religion

Previously Early Judaism, Late Antique Judaism; expanded interests in religion and science to contemporary period

@naomilawsonjacobs@scholar.social

Disability and religion; disabled people's experiences of churches

Independent researcher and ECR

@ChrisSmithMuso@mastodon.social

music, dance, vernacular culture

early modern, 19th and 20th, contemporary

USA, Caribbean, African Diaspora

dance, politics, subaltern identity

American vernacular music specialist, music & politics, dance & politics

@ymiller419@scholar.social

Hebrew Bible, Ancient Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Biblical Reception

priesthood; religion and violence; reception studies

@douggay@mastodon.scot

Practical Theology, Political Theology, Homiletics, Liturgy, Reformed Ecclesiology and Missiology

Nationalism, UK Constitution, church and mission, theology and the arts,

@thomasrenkert@scholar.social

hermeneutical, digital humanities

Christianity, study of Diaconia, Systematic Theology, pedgagogy

Diaconia, Systematic Theology, global health justice, epistemology, action theory, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and machine learning

currently working in teacher's education

@vhobbs@activism.openworlds.info

linguistic (functional approaches)

Religious language used in both explicit and implicit religion

Gender, religion and violence, language and power

Introduction to Religious Language (Bloomsbury, 2021)

@davidbunce@mastodon.social

gender, barth, reformed theology, christology

@robertoche@robot.rodeo

constructive philosophical

Christianity & Latin America

U.S.; US Latinx; Latin America

gender, sexuality, social ethics

Storyteller, Professor, Politicized Theologian

Christianity and Catholicism

Education and religion; Pop culture & Religion; SciFi & Religion

https://twitter.com/teinturs

@dgrobertson@mastodon.social

New religions, method and theory

Conspiracy theories, social epistemology

Early modern, 18th century

Religion and politics, religion and social history

PhD student studying ultramontamism, unigenitus, Catholicism in the 18th century, and papal authority

Digital Religion, Religion and migration

@jolyonbt@mastodon.social

Religions of Japan and the US

Asia/Pacific, North America

Media, law, politics, education, economy

Website: jolyon.thomasresearch.org

Princess O'Nika Auguste

@isletheologian@glammr.us

Historical critical, feminist theories, Feminist literary criticism, narrative , trauma

history, new testament , Greco-Roman religions, mythology, Old Testament, popular culture

Europe, Africa and the Middle East

gender, sexual violence, sexual violence and religion, religion and popculture, ancient history, mythology and women

St.Lucian millennial writer, historian, and cultural critic: Gender |Ancient History| Sexual Violence |Biblical Studies| PopCulture| Mental Health.

@prainbow@climatejustice.social

Paganism, modern Druid practice in situ.

Modern practice and preChristian research

I am the founder of the Druidry Centered Women's Circle, MA in Gaelic Literature UCC

The Open Buddhist University

mixed methods (netnography, anthropology, sociology, geospatial, big data, R) philosophical theology, comparative religious ethics

Christian ethics, sociology of activism, geospatial data science

economics, labour, digital religion, ecology, activism, political theology

@DWitte@mastodon.social

Islam, secularisms, religion and non-religion and its relation to other fields (politics, law etc.)

contemporary, but interested in historical cases

secularisms, boundaries of religion and non-religion and its relation to other fields (politics, law etc.)

I‘m a social theory scholar with material interests primarily in religion, law, and politics - and the patterns and boundaries constituted by their respective interferences.

@bittersweet@mstdn.social

critical theory, philosophy, political theology

intellectual history of christianity

gender, the secular, life, death & the afterlife

@drmjcwarren@mstdn.social

Ancient, contemporary reception

@duderonomy@scholar.social

Judaism, biblical studies, Ancient Near Eastern religions

death and burial, religion, ritual, monumentality, epigraphy

@conradhackett@sciences.social

Global demography of religious groups

religious change, including secularization

Ancient, medieval, and contemporary

PhD candidate University of Toronto

@praxishabitus@mstdn.social

sociology, ethnography, historical, some quantitative

Race, Religion, Inequality, Power, Innovation, Social Change

United States and Western Europe

Willam R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Davidson College

New religions, conspiracy theories

University of Toronto Study of Religion

Literary-Critical, Historical-Critical

Biblical Studies, Christian traditions, ANE religion

Levant and Mesopotamia mainly

Wisdom, Utopianism, gender/disability

Buddhism, Chinese religions

religion and literature; environmental history

@pmphillips@amastodon.uk

Digital theology, digital religion, New Testament

@Anarchy_How@mastodon.green

Mesopotamia & North America

Religion and Violence, Apocalypticism, Schizmogenesis

We got to get it together. Academic interests float around whatever might help unwind the schizmogenesis all around us. Religion, Philosophy and Post-Coloinial Anthropology are my primary interests.

@oozenet@mastodon.social

Paganism, Religion In Cyberspace, Ancient Egypt, Animism, Shamanism.

Australia, Egypt, Cyberspace

Digital Religion, Virtual Worlds, Digital Humanities

@TrippHudgins@sfba.social

Ethnography, Practical Theology

Christianity, American Evangelicalism, Emergent Church

Post-Christianity, Exvangelicalism, Religious Nones, Music

philosophy of religion, disagreement, testimony, groups

Hinduism, Buddhism, religion and law, ritual

ancient, medieval, early modern

South Asia, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, Indonesia

ritual, law, legal theory, caste/status, norms, Sanskrit, epigraphy

Francesca Stavrakopoulou

@ProfFrancesca@mas.to

Socio-anthropological, material-cultural, historical

Hebrew Bible, ancient southwest Asian religions

Ancient Levant and ancient southwest Asian

Materiality; sociality, constructs of the body; visual culture

@geoffclaussen@religion.masto.host

ethics, philosophy, historical

Department of Religious Studies, Elon University

@EstherBrownsmith@religion.masto.host

Gender, sexuality, metaphor, fan fiction

@eleutheros@mastodon.social

Text Linguistics, Constructive Theology

Christian systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament, Pauline studies

20th century, the Hasmonean Era, the Herodian Conquest

Northern Europe, US, Eastern Roman Empire

ecumenical and interreligious dialogue; neotraditionalism and fundamentalism as authoritarian systems

I'm a Christian white guy who's trying to listen to what justice is and make way for it

@tiennusmarcus@piaille.fr

Modern era, 19th-20th centuries, Meiji to Showa eras

religion and empire, religion and politics

PhD candidate, EPHE-PSL (Paris, France)

queer theology, Anglican Studies

sexuality, race, postcolonialism

Visiting Professor, Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in NYC

@ameliazein@fediscience.org

Psychological (Social, Quantitative)

Mental conceptualization of science and religion relationship

@bodhidave@mstdn.social

contemplative practitioner

cross-cultural contemplative traditions (via negativa; Zen)

medieval (Cloud of Unknowing); Kamakura (Dōgen)

meditation teacher; psychologist

@Tumnusethic@mastodon.ie

Bioethics; feminism; ecological

Europe, The Mediterrenean

Religion and violence, Book history, Material Culture

Early career museum curator. Also interested in games and play, and how they related to education and research.

@paulmhedges@mastodonapp.uk

History philosophy, critical hermeneutical phenomenology,

Interreligious Studies, critical religion, decolonisation and religion, theological studies, comparative theology, dialogue studies, method and theory

UK, Europe, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Global

decolonisation, critical theory, critical hermeneutical phenomenology, prejudice studies

Interreligious Studies, Critical Religion, Theological Studies

@mexiqueancien@mastodon.top

Ph.D. Candidate in Arts and Archaeology, Paris 1 Sorbonne; Humanities assistant professor at Universidad de Monterrey

@ValerieFrankel@wandering.shop

Editor of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, and open to submissions on this academic series for Rowman & Littlefield.

@calamocurrente@theres.life

I am from Mexico and speak in spanish and english. I respect all religions

@henrykuo@mastodon.world

Christian theology, Reformed theology, constructive theology, ecclesiology, ecumenism, theological ethics, business ethics, world Christianity

I am currently assistant professor of theology and ethics at Greensboro College and also the assistant director of the George Center for Honors Studies.

@robertjmyles@hcommons.social

New Testament, early Christianity

Caroline T. (Carrie) Schroeder

@ctschroeder@hcommons.social

all of the above, historical, literary theory, material culture, gender studies, digital humanities

Christianity, Coptic Studies, Digital Humanities

gender, asceticism, monasticism, power

Prof. of Women's and Gender Studies and Data Scholarship at the University of Oklahoma

Rev. Manchita San José

Christianism, Church history, Theology

Individualism, digital faith, free speach

I am a reformed and insurgent christian, I have studied theology for three years.

Philosophy - Spiritual Theology - History

MA in Spiritual Theology (Christianity niched) however atheist and lean Zen Buddhist

Classical Antiquity - Zen Buddhism - Celtic Christianity

Greco-Roman - Norse - Celtic

Aesthetical practices - subjective experiences - mysticism -

@profjenthompson@mstdn.social

ethnographic (anthropology/sociology, more the former)

contemporary Judaism, applied Jewish ethics, ethnography

mainly U.S. although I also teach about global Judaism(s) and Jews

secularism, 'liberal' religion, intermarriage, gender politics & ethics

Jewish Studies prof at Cal State Northridge

@danielmrose@masthead.social

@thomasdcarroll@mastodon.social

globally engaged philosophy of religion, religious diversity, conceptual genealogies

early modern to contemporary

Associate Professor (Teaching) in Philosophy/Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

@c_stroebele@mastodon.social

systematic, history of ideas

Christianity, Islam, interreligious relations

contemporary, 19th c., medieval

interreligious relations, systematic/philosophical theology, religious ethics, political theology

coordinating the Theological Forum Christianity – Islam

@marion_grau@climatejustice.social

Constructive Theology, Intersectional Approaches

Christianity, Comparative Theology, Ecumenism, World Christianity, Mission, Interreligious Theology

Ancient, medieval, and contemporary

Europe, North America, Indigenous

Petrocultures, Climate Change, Climate Grief, Theological Approaches to Energy Transition

Professor, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo

@BVLSingler@mastodon.social

AI, Digital Religion(s), New Religious Movements

Digital Religion, Religion and Technology, Religious Innovation

Assistant Professor of Digital Religion(s) at University of Zurich

@mvpastphil@techhub.social

Digital religion, technology

Girardian, Liberation Theology

Longtime pastor and preacher

@jksmith@mastodon.world

Theology and Philosophy of Tech

Digital Religion, Violence and Tech, Robots

theology and the arts, beauty, christology, Wesleyan Theology

Australian teaching theology in Manchester, dreaming of lamingtons.

@parulidae@religion.masto.host

ecocritical, environmental humanities

ecospirituality, Genesis flood narrative

religion and ecology, climate justice

I write on climate change through the lens of Noah's Ark

Animal studies, Christianity

Late Ancient Christianity, contemporary Xn theology

animals, animality, anthropology, slavery, racialization

@jennycaplan@religion.masto.host

popular culture, media, gender/sexuality, race

I study American religion (primarily but not exclusively Judaism) and popular culture

Ecclesiology, Holiness, Wesley studies, theological education

Salvation Army Officer. Head of Higher Education for The Salvation Army UKI. PhD student at Nazarene Theological College, University of Manchester

@EdwardAndrews@mastodon.scot

Decline of the Church of Scotland and posibioitied for change

@markgodin@religion.masto.host

theological reflection/critical theory

Christianity (mainly Reformed Protestant); inter-religious relations

Canada, rest of North America, Europe

Practical theology, religion and literature, ecclesial repentance and theological reconstruction, the body

@ahynes1@mastodon.cloud

digital humanities, practical theology

the cosmos and planet earth

trauma, digital religion, contemporary culture

@giuliaevolvi@toot.community

Digital religion, religion and gender

I'm a lecturer at Erasmus University in Rotterdam

@paulftremlett@mastodon.social

SE and E Asia / Transnational

Cities, protests and publics

Bad table tennis. Worse at chess.

@JGittinger@mastodon.social

Hindusim, Islam, popular culture

popular culture, digital media, nationalism

Asst Prof at Georgia College

Medieval, modern, contemprqry

Contemporary Middle East (iraq, Syria, Lebanon Israel, Palestine) - medieval Islamic Empires (fatimid and Andalusian)

Political philosophy of Judaism and Islam in medieval and modern periods, Judeo-Arabic, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Women in Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Jewish and Muslim readings.of ancient Greek philosophy

@peterwebster@mastodon.social

theology as a discipline, ecumenism, religion and politics, religious arts, digital religion, disability

@britevanet , @pj_webster

@thomcrowe@mastodon.social

Byzantine and Anglican Christianity

I’m Thom, your run-of-the-mill Anglo-Orthodox, elder millennial.

Capitalism, Consumerism, AI, Leadership, Governance

Based in Edinburgh, Scotland

@MikeMW@religion.mast.host

Originally Jewish mysticism and philosophy, now largely black Judaism and Hebrew Israelites

@drnelk@mastodon.social

Philosophy of Religion, Religious Phenomenology

UVA grad who studied under Jim Childress, Peter Ochs, and David Novak who currently teaches text and philosophy at a Jewish high school in NYC

@AledJLlThomas@religion.masto.host

New Religious Movements

lived religion, contemporary religions, new religion, digital religion

Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds

@schlittenhardtm@mastodon.social

Theological Studies, Leadership Studies

Leadership, Trinity, Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics

@CaesarEkya@fediscience.org

Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology

@GianStudy@mastodon.lol

Religious Studies, loving Torah, learning Hebrew

@fmadore@hcommons.social

Islamic activism, Muslim politics

Historian and research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)

@benyehudapress@kibitz.cloud

We publish Jewish nonfiction, including of academic interest. We are also interested in bringing out-of-print works back to print.

Any - we are especially looking for non-US Jewish diaspora books right now.

Any; manuscripts from authors / related to topics which are marginalized within American Judaism are especially welcome. (Including but not limited to books by/about LGBTQIA+ Jews / gender inclusion as a topic, Jews of Color, disability / chronic illness / neurodivergence, diaspora outside the Anglosphere, and more!) Please peruse our catalog to see the kind of work we publish, but don't hesitate even if you find nothing like your manuscript.

We have open manuscript submissions through our website benyehudapress.com, including for unagented authors.

Bogi Takács Perelmutter

@bogiperson@wandering.shop

Jewish Studies, linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, health sciences / speech & hearing science (not all of these are connected to religious studies)

Linguistics (inc. Jewish Hungarian as a language variant), gender inc. gender nonconformity, queerness, literary studies inc. translation studies, Holocaust, Jewish mysticism

I am an adjunct lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Kansas and also employed part time at a Jewish press. I appreciate if you say hi when you add me on Mastodon :)

@RebeccaShapiro@c18.masto.host

English literature/language, British antisemitism

Great Britain, colonial Caribbean

I was there as @RebeccaJShapiro

@gloqur@religion.masto.host

early modern, contemporary

global, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe

Qur'anic exegesis, Qur'an translation

PI of the ERC project GloQur - The Global Qur'an

@ChristineMitchell@hcommons.social

Ancient studies, Hebrew Bible