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Laura Feldt

@laurafeldt.bsky.social

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Professor of the Study of Religions - ancient religions and contemporary popular culture, the environmental humanities; ancient Mesopotamia; HB/early Judaisms, ancient forms of Christianity

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Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Aug 21

Interested in ancient wilderness narratives and the role of narrative in forming relationships between humans and the more-than-human-world? Here's an essay based on my new book @universitypress.cambridge.org 👇 Thanks to bibleinterp.arizona.edu for the invite
bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/how...

How Did Ancient Wilderness Narratives Form Identities and Relationships with Nature? And Do They Still? | Bible Interp

bibleinterp.arizona.edu

Reposted by Flavio Lehner, Christoph Scherber, Laura Feldt

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Apr 30

For 60 years, unclassified US defense and intelligence reports assessed security threats from environmental, #water, and #climate risks.

These assessments are now being deleted, censored, and canceled. I document, annotate, and link to them here (first of 3 posts):

www.gleick.com/blog/climate...

Climate Change, Water, the Environment and National Security: An Annotated History of U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Security Assessments (Part 1: to 2010)

Summary: For more than half a century, U.S. intelligence and defense communities have worked to understand the threats to national and international security from a range of enviro

www.gleick.com

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Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Apr 10

Super excited that my new book Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness - Narrative, Nature and Religious Identity Formation from the Babylonians to the Late Antique Christians is coming out next Thursday, April 17, with Cambridge University Press & Assessment 😄 🥳 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Apr 7

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www.scientificamerican.com/article/stro...

Strong Scientific Leaders Must Speak Out against the Trump Administration’s Science Denial

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences should denounce the antiscientific policies of the Trump administration

www.scientificamerican.com

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Mar 25

In two days, the Afghanistan Women’s National Football Team will be absent from the 2026 AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers draw. This marks the second World Cup-qualifying cycle from which the team has been excluded since 2021.

FIFA must recognize, support Afghan women’s team in exile ✊ ⚽

Global: FIFA must recognize, support Afghan women's team in exile

FIFA should act to stop the ongoing discrimination against Afghan women footballers living in exile and facilitate their return to international competition

amn.st

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forskning.no @forskning.bsky.social · Mar 20

KRONIKK: Det er krevende å tenke det, skummelt å si det og nesten umulig å skrive det. Men det er likevel sant.

Dette minner om sensur fra et totalitært regime

KRONIKK: Det er krevende å tenke det, skummelt å si det og nesten umulig å skrive det. Men det er likevel sant.

www.forskersonen.no

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · Mar 13

Tydelig svar fra UiBs rektor og rektorkandidat: UiB skal være tydelige forkjempere for den akademiske friheten ved å støtte UiB-forskere under press, jobbe nasjonalt og internasjonalt for å reverse endringer i USA og bygge beredskap for å sikre fri forskning i Norge og Europa, støtte kollegaer i USA

Et universitet er bare et universitet om det er fritt og uavhengig

Når verdens ledende forskningsnasjon og verdens beste universiteter rammes, angår det forskningen og universiteter globalt. Vi vil være tydelige forkjempere for den akademiske friheten.

www.khrono.no

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · Mar 7

Støtt fri forskning ved å skrive ut denne plakaten på et A4-ark, gå utenfor kontoret ditt kl 12 i dag og ta en selfie av deg selv med plakaten - så poster du det på sosiale medier med hashtag #standupforscience2025. Er du i Bergen så kom gjerne på Muséplassen kl 12. Dette er tiden for å si fra!!

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Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you very much, dear @unsissel.bsky.social for sharing!

Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Mar 6

JOBS: At the Study of Religions in beautiful Bergen, we are looking for 2 PhD Fellows and 1 Postdoctoral Fellow in HB/Second Temple + ancient forms of Christianity for the RADHEART project: www.linkedin.com/posts/laura-...

Deadline: April 22

Read more about RADHEART: www.uib.no/en/ahkr/1760...

RADHEART – Radical Habits of the Heart: Emotions, Embodiment, and Strong, Individual Commitment in Ancient Radical Religion

Radical religion scholarship has not yet responded satisfactorily to the question of how and why individual members of radical religious groups become and stay strongly committed. The ERC project RADH...

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Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Feb 25

Looking fwd very much to reading this smart new thing👇 edited by @mistaus.bsky.social - Fun to be part of the project!

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Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social · Feb 19

Postdoc position @UiB for project on material religion or religion of place with a focus on power, networks and sacrality in the ancient world. #Ancientbluesky #Acrel #archaeology #religiousstudies #materialreligion

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Studies at the University of Bergen (275792) | University of Bergen

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Studies at the University of Bergen (275792), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Monday, March 17, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Feb 6

New job! Looking fwd to starting a Norwegian adventure with great colleagues at the study of religion at the University of Bergen in a few weeks 😀 with @unsissel.bsky.social @mistaus.bsky.social and others! -and to dive into the aesthetics of religion, material media, popular culture and more ⛰️🌊

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Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Jan 15

First post, glad to be here & learning how it all works - and also happy to have finished the proofs for my new book _Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness_ in press with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, coming out in late April 👇

Laura Feldt @laurafeldt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Thank you, Mattias! Finally here :)