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Samuel Perry

@profsamperry.bsky.social

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Professor | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag and The Cross; Religion for Realists | CV: https://tinyurl.com/4hs86ntn

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Samuel L. Perry is an American sociologist known for his research on American Christianity, politics, and sexual behavior. He is currently the Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. The topics of Perry's books and articles have included American evangelicals and their social engagement, Christian nationalism, moral incongruence and religious responses to pornography use, religion and interracial marriage, Christian adoption and foster care, and English Bible translations. .. more

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15d

🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars.

My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 13h

We've likewise found the stereotypes about broody teens hating their parents to be untrue. Any eye rolls I get are hard-earned rewards for my dad jokes.

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 1d

Dept of Social & Political Sciences at Bocconi Univ in Milan is advertising for an open-rank position in sociology. They are excited about computational social science.
Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for making all this available, Nic. Bless you.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d

Job posting! OU Sociology is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor or an accelerated TT or tenured Associate Professor, teaching criminology, criminal justice, & race/ethnicity courses. OU is OK's flagship R1, PhD program, 2-2 load with TA help. Please share!

Details: apply.interfolio.com/174925

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2d

Taken from The Knowledge Polity by @pauldjupe.bsky.social Amy Erica Smith, & @aesokhey.bsky.social, which I'm sharing in my grad course on The Sociology of Academic Publishing.

Median number of reviews for sociologists (in 2017) was 3 reviews with the avg. pulled up by outliers. Makes me wanna cry.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to see the new paperback edition of Addicted to Lust *with a new preface*! I’m proud of the way the arguments in here about “moral incongruence” and pornography use have only received more empirical support in the past 6 years. Great deal on Amazon!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0197...

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d

Not that polarization is the worse thing we face. Sometimes not even a bad thing. But religion’s relationship to affective polarization tends to make a hard situation worse.

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d

Almost all of them mainline, politically moderate churches. For a number of reasons, not a great thing. These folks tend to be the most cross-pressured politically. The end of such churches will worsen partisan sorting and with it affective polarization.
www.axios.com/2025/10/03/u...

15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S.

Megachurches spread influence but fewer Americans going to church

www.axios.com

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d

Important new FREE study by Amy Brooke Grauley. Experiments show when Christian leaders warn Christians against Christian nationalism, they're less likely to identify with it, especially if they don't have strong views on it yet. Effects are weaker in the opposite direction.
doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 7d

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for October 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Convincing colleagues to vote with them is the literal job of politicians - if they can’t do that, they can’t do their jobs. They own this shutdown and all of the consequences.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking about this quote today.

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 10d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 10d

Cross-country analysis of voter reactions to economic crises.

tldr: economic crises benefit the right. If a center-right party is in power when the crisis hits, there is a shift even further to the right.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve heard Bryan Stevenson speak in person. Kind, brilliant, and courageous. Would vote him for President tomorrow if he ran.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d

So exhausting..

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 11d

So exhausting..

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11d

Hot take: pastors who claim to preach the Truth (capital T) from the pulpit ought to be the most obsessively fact-checky critics of *every* claim their own sermons, including references to history, science, & politics. If your history is fast & loose, I expect your use of the Bible is too.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 12d

This one will make waves. Based on an original longitudinal data set, Darci Schmidgall documents a *positive* link between states funding crisis pregnancy centers & abortion rates. IOW, such ”pro-life” alternative-to-abortion measures may backfire. FREE to read.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do state-funded “Alternatives to Abortion” programs reduce abortion rates? A longitudinal analysis

During the era of federal protection of abortion rights in the U.S., many majority-conservative state governments sought to oppose abortion by impleme…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 12d

Camping with my boys in the Wichita Mountains. 3rd tarantula we’ve seen in 12 hours. Suckers are big.

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve stood up to right-wing billionaires and stood up for kids and families.

This is my home. And our country is in danger.

And I’m running for Congress to defend them both.

Please join us.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 13d

I hate that. I'm like "Why would you trust me to evaluate the suitability of this article for publication when you clearly don't think I know what's suitable for publication in your journal?"

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Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 13d

Very engaging new article on religion & political knowledge

On knowledge of both basic civics & current politics, atheists/agnostics’ advantage is strongest among liberals & Democrats and disappears among conservatives & Republicans

From @profsamperry.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/sf/article/d...

SOCIAL FORCES

Journal Article
Secularism, sorting, and Americans’ political knowledge Open Access
Samuel L Perry
Social Forces, soaf150, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf150
Published: 24 September 2025 Article history

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Will (Faithful Politics) @faithfulpolitics.bsky.social · 13d

October on Faithful Politics brings powerful voices—whistleblowing truth-tellers, Emmy-winning storytellers, journalist, respected scholars, and fresh perspectives on faith, justice, and culture. We do no advertising, so help us spread the word and expand the conversation!

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 13d

Anyone still on Twitter/X occassionally who wouldn't mind posting about this article? Just a link to the study with a sentence about the key finding would be awesome. Given the user base and climate on that platform these days, I figure it might cause a stir. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social · 14d

SSSR Members ➡️ Time to complete your registration for the #SSSR_RRA2025 Annual Meeting and reserve your hotel room. We look forward to welcoming all to Minneapolis October 31 - November 2, 2025.

✍️Registration sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...

🏨Hotel Info: sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 14d

Party at my house. You‘re all invited.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.)

www.koco.com/article/ryan...

Ryan Walters to resign as
Oklahoma state superintendent for private sector job
State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday that he will resign from office and take a job in the private sector.
VEWS
Updated: 10:46 PM CDT Sep 24, 2025

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