Donovan Schaefer
@feelingtheory.bsky.social
Teaching/writing about emotion, secularism, & power at @upennrels.bsky.social
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
🏙️ Philly
✍️📚: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
🏙️ Philly
✍️📚: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Pinned
Coming soon to a library near you: The False Image of History Project book!
We're thrilled to announce that the False Image of History project will be published as a book as part of the Reconstructing America series at Fordham University Press @fordhampress.bsky.social!
We're thrilled to announce that the False Image of History project will be published as a book as part of the Reconstructing America series at Fordham University Press @fordhampress.bsky.social!
Manuscript submitted for review!
95,000 words. 48 chapters. 4 years of work.
Extremely excited to be bringing this into the world with my brilliant collaborators Olivia Haynie and @justinseward.bsky.social!
95,000 words. 48 chapters. 4 years of work.
Extremely excited to be bringing this into the world with my brilliant collaborators Olivia Haynie and @justinseward.bsky.social!
Ross Ragebait
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Ross Ragebait
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@xroadproj.bsky.social staff and fellows have been busy at this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Project Director @judithweisenfeld.com’s book *Black Religion in the Madhouse* was the subject of a round table discussion.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@xroadproj.bsky.social staff and fellows have been busy at this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Project Director @judithweisenfeld.com’s book *Black Religion in the Madhouse* was the subject of a round table discussion.
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”
And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
We did it, #AARSBL25: Took the coldest conference possible and filled it with warmth. Every post-COVID AAR has been amazing but this was the best yet! Thanks, all, for an amazing weekend full of friendship, food, and conversation!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We did it, #AARSBL25: Took the coldest conference possible and filled it with warmth. Every post-COVID AAR has been amazing but this was the best yet! Thanks, all, for an amazing weekend full of friendship, food, and conversation!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My Manifesto.
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My Manifesto.
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lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:
Look, I just don't like books in which it is easy to tell what is happening.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:
Trying this next semester, too! Though I don't think I can give up slides (yet)
Some of you may recall this post. I thought I'd provide an update on how planning for my analog course is going...
It's been a mix of expected and unexpected, but welcome, surprises --
It's been a mix of expected and unexpected, but welcome, surprises --
Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally.
This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide."
All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers
This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide."
All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Trying this next semester, too! Though I don't think I can give up slides (yet)
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
My favorite trump is grubby emo trump
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My favorite trump is grubby emo trump
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I found my book, Ripples of the Universe, at the @uchicagopress.bsky.social display at #aarsbl25 so I got Nathan Petrie to take this cheesey picture for me and now I'm sharing it with you
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I found my book, Ripples of the Universe, at the @uchicagopress.bsky.social display at #aarsbl25 so I got Nathan Petrie to take this cheesey picture for me and now I'm sharing it with you
Fascinating session of the Religion, Affect, and Emotion unit at #AARSBL25 on the relationship of freedom to feeling. Elizabeth Chiarovano sorting out different theories of relationship between anger and justice. Nathan Snaza calling for a rethinking of freedom through affective transcorporeality.
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Fascinating session of the Religion, Affect, and Emotion unit at #AARSBL25 on the relationship of freedom to feeling. Elizabeth Chiarovano sorting out different theories of relationship between anger and justice. Nathan Snaza calling for a rethinking of freedom through affective transcorporeality.
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
Excited to talk about @tingguowrites.bsky.social's book *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China* TODAY from 5:00-6:30 in HCC 101.
thank you so much Donovan! looking forward to many inspiring conversations at the book panel tomorrow (w/ scholars from #Chinese #religions, #decolonial #biblical studies, #transpacific studies, and of course #affecttheory!)!
#aarsbl25 @aarweb.bsky.social
#aarsbl25 @aarweb.bsky.social
Looking forward to participating in roundtable discussions of two wonderful books at #AARSBL this weekend! Myrna Perez's *Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy* and Ting Guo's *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China*!
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to talk about @tingguowrites.bsky.social's book *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China* TODAY from 5:00-6:30 in HCC 101.
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
An outstanding special session of the American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social annual meeting here in Boston this afternoon on Judith Weisenfeld's @judithweisenfeld.com extraordinary book *Black Religion in the Madhouse*! #AARSBL25 #AARSBL
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
An outstanding special session of the American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social annual meeting here in Boston this afternoon on Judith Weisenfeld's @judithweisenfeld.com extraordinary book *Black Religion in the Madhouse*! #AARSBL25 #AARSBL
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
at the yapping Olympics (American Academy of Religion)
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
at the yapping Olympics (American Academy of Religion)
Excited to talk about @tingguowrites.bsky.social's book *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China* TODAY from 5:00-6:30 in HCC 101.
thank you so much Donovan! looking forward to many inspiring conversations at the book panel tomorrow (w/ scholars from #Chinese #religions, #decolonial #biblical studies, #transpacific studies, and of course #affecttheory!)!
#aarsbl25 @aarweb.bsky.social
#aarsbl25 @aarweb.bsky.social
Looking forward to participating in roundtable discussions of two wonderful books at #AARSBL this weekend! Myrna Perez's *Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy* and Ting Guo's *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China*!
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to talk about @tingguowrites.bsky.social's book *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China* TODAY from 5:00-6:30 in HCC 101.
Reposted by Donovan Schaefer
Authors! If you’re having a book panel at #AARSBL25, we’d love to celebrate you. Plz feel free to get in touch with me if you & your co-panelists would like to transform the #book panel into a review roundtable in the #JAAR!
@aarweb.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Authors! If you’re having a book panel at #AARSBL25, we’d love to celebrate you. Plz feel free to get in touch with me if you & your co-panelists would like to transform the #book panel into a review roundtable in the #JAAR!
@aarweb.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social
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Foxes are the cats of dogs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Foxes are the cats of dogs.
My favorite trump is grubby emo trump
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My favorite trump is grubby emo trump
Whoever made this: salute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Whoever made this: salute.