Friends @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is doing well— she’s at home, released last night. I’ll let her speak on the ordeal when she’s ready but for now wanted to share this update.

It’s publication day for Listeners Like Who? @princetonupress.bsky.social.

I’m grateful to the journalists that shared their stories with me, the colleagues and friends that read copious drafts, and the early readers of the book. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This is rooted in domestic anxieties about the declining hegemony of Christianity in the US and reflects onto US foreign policy, on both Christians and Muslims.

When I was doing fieldwork on religious freedom advocacy in DC, I would often hear that Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide. But where did that come from? I traced these claims back to 2 sources—Open Doors & Pew Research Center—and discovered that neither substantiate it.

New article on how international religious freedom actors misinterpret data on religion-based violations, claim that Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide, and leverage the perceived objectivity of numbers to claim ideological neutrality.

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Thanks for sharing this Peter!

A very interesting new article by Miray Philips on issues w/ the (mis)use of quantitative data on Christian persecution. One area quant scholars and more critical scholars (should) align is on raising these types of concerns.

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Sociology at Nuffield College invites applications for academic visitors during the 2026-27 academic year www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Call for work "that illuminates the various ways policing promotes – or could promote – public safety and social order." Maybe it is normal to have a special issue defined by the conclusions reached rather than questions asked, and it just grates on me when it's reactionary?

📢 TIMEP is recruiting for an in-person Bassem Sabry Fellow to spend six months working full-time in our Washington, DC office.

Check out this opportunity and apply by August 28: timep.org/2025/08/08/o...

📣 TIMEP is recruiting for an in-person Bassem Sabry Fellow to spend six months working full-time in our Washington, DC office.

Check out this rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of MENA policymaking! Applications are due August 28: timep.org/2025/08/08/o...

We've been adding to our website since we launched it last year. Worth a visit! Among the added features, we now have the details of our growing team of affiliated research and student fellows, including Kevin Flatt, Miray Philips, Jacob Legault-Leclair and Hannah Vines: uwaterloo.ca/st-jeromes/a...

Meet the members of the 2025-2027 YSAR cohort!
Miray Philips is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Toronto.
Welcome to YSAR!
Learn more the cohort: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

Congrats to IRCSF research fellow Miray Philips from the University of Toronto for being selected as a Young Scholar in American Religion by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture!

Today, we want to spotlight Miray Philips, one of our RSDR from the 2022-2023 cohort. Dr. Miray Philips is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Univ of Toronto. #academicsky #socsky #polirel

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