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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 21h
PhD candidate Kirby Sokolow's latest article, "Buddhist Exceptionalism Behind Bars," has just been published in the journal Pacific World as part of a special section on American Buddhism, Race, and Power.

Congratulations, Kirby!

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Buddhist Exceptionalism behind Bars
Part of a special section on American Buddhism, Race, and Power. Many Buddhist programs in US prisons focus on reforming incarcerated people. Often the leaders of these programs celebrate their inc…
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Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social · 5d
If you are thinking of applying to our program, DEFINITELY attend this session. It will help you determine if the PhD is right for you and will also include tips on how to craft a competitive application.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 6d
Interested in applying for the PHD program in Religious Studies at Penn? Join graduate chair Donovan Schaefer and graduate coordinator Katelyn Stoler for this online information session and Q&A on Oct. 13!

No registration required. Details at this link!

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RELS Information Session for Prospective Doctoral Students | Department of Religious Studies
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 5d
Religious Studies folks: If you know any students thinking about applying for the PhD program at Penn, please send them this invitation to our online information session on Oct. 13!
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 6d
Interested in applying for the PHD program in Religious Studies at Penn? Join graduate chair Donovan Schaefer and graduate coordinator Katelyn Stoler for this online information session and Q&A on Oct. 13!

No registration required. Details at this link!

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RELS Information Session for Prospective Doctoral Students | Department of Religious Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 6d
Interested in applying for the PHD program in Religious Studies at Penn? Join graduate chair Donovan Schaefer and graduate coordinator Katelyn Stoler for this online information session and Q&A on Oct. 13!

No registration required. Details at this link!

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RELS Information Session for Prospective Doctoral Students | Department of Religious Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 9d
Our colloquium event this week!
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Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health and Modernity in Indonesia
RELS Colloquium
Chiara Formichi (Cornell)
Oct 2, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. Women from all walks of life were called upon to fulfill domestic and motherly roles for the production and socialization of laborers, soldiers, and citizens, and pushed against the boundaries imposed on them by states and patriarchal orders. In this talk I will discuss how they rearticulated scientific mothering, nationalist maternalism, and Islamic ideals of motherhood to create a public voice through gendered care work, and the methodological challenges of doing so. Chiara Formichi is Director of the Religious Studies Program and Professor in Asian Studies at Cornell University. She specializes on Islam in Southeast Asia focusing on the intersection of religion, politics and society in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Chiara’s third monograph, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Cosponsored by the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 7d
Happening tomorrow!
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 9d
Our colloquium event this week!
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Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health and Modernity in Indonesia
RELS Colloquium
Chiara Formichi (Cornell)
Oct 2, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. Women from all walks of life were called upon to fulfill domestic and motherly roles for the production and socialization of laborers, soldiers, and citizens, and pushed against the boundaries imposed on them by states and patriarchal orders. In this talk I will discuss how they rearticulated scientific mothering, nationalist maternalism, and Islamic ideals of motherhood to create a public voice through gendered care work, and the methodological challenges of doing so. Chiara Formichi is Director of the Religious Studies Program and Professor in Asian Studies at Cornell University. She specializes on Islam in Southeast Asia focusing on the intersection of religion, politics and society in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Chiara’s third monograph, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Cosponsored by the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 9d
Our colloquium event this week!
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Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health and Modernity in Indonesia
RELS Colloquium
Chiara Formichi (Cornell)
Oct 2, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. Women from all walks of life were called upon to fulfill domestic and motherly roles for the production and socialization of laborers, soldiers, and citizens, and pushed against the boundaries imposed on them by states and patriarchal orders. In this talk I will discuss how they rearticulated scientific mothering, nationalist maternalism, and Islamic ideals of motherhood to create a public voice through gendered care work, and the methodological challenges of doing so. Chiara Formichi is Director of the Religious Studies Program and Professor in Asian Studies at Cornell University. She specializes on Islam in Southeast Asia focusing on the intersection of religion, politics and society in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Chiara’s third monograph, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Cosponsored by the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 13d
Come join us tomorrow for this exciting event!
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 15d
Happening this week in the Department of Religious Studies!
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Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement
RELS Colloquium
Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com (Princeton)
Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement RELS Colloquium Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton) Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key precipitating factor. This talk explores late nineteenth and early twentieth-century psychiatric theories about race, religion, and the “normal mind” and shows how the emerging specialty of psychiatry drew on works from history of religions to make racialized claims about African Americans’ “traits of character, habit, and behavior.” This history of the intersections of psychiatry and African American religions sheds light on how ideas about race, religion, and mental normalcy shaped African American experience in courts and mental hospitals and on the role the racialization of religion played more broadly in the history of medicine, legal history, and the history of disability. Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her books include Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, and Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake. Cosponsored by the Department of the History and Sociology of Science.
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Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com · 15d
I'm looking foward to talking about my work at Penn later this week.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 15d
Happening this week in the Department of Religious Studies!
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Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement
RELS Colloquium
Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com (Princeton)
Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement RELS Colloquium Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton) Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key precipitating factor. This talk explores late nineteenth and early twentieth-century psychiatric theories about race, religion, and the “normal mind” and shows how the emerging specialty of psychiatry drew on works from history of religions to make racialized claims about African Americans’ “traits of character, habit, and behavior.” This history of the intersections of psychiatry and African American religions sheds light on how ideas about race, religion, and mental normalcy shaped African American experience in courts and mental hospitals and on the role the racialization of religion played more broadly in the history of medicine, legal history, and the history of disability. Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her books include Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, and Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake. Cosponsored by the Department of the History and Sociology of Science.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 15d
Happening this week in the Department of Religious Studies!
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Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement
RELS Colloquium
Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com (Princeton)
Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement RELS Colloquium Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton) Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key precipitating factor. This talk explores late nineteenth and early twentieth-century psychiatric theories about race, religion, and the “normal mind” and shows how the emerging specialty of psychiatry drew on works from history of religions to make racialized claims about African Americans’ “traits of character, habit, and behavior.” This history of the intersections of psychiatry and African American religions sheds light on how ideas about race, religion, and mental normalcy shaped African American experience in courts and mental hospitals and on the role the racialization of religion played more broadly in the history of medicine, legal history, and the history of disability. Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her books include Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, and Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake. Cosponsored by the Department of the History and Sociology of Science.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 20d
Happening today!
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 22d
Our Religious Studies colloquium this week!

Islamic Law, History, and Class in Early Nineteenth Century India
Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton)
Sep 18, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204

Cosponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 21d
Prof. Schaefer, along with RELS alums Justin Seward and Olivia Haynie, has a new book project in the works!
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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · 21d
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!
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 22d
Our Religious Studies colloquium this week!

Islamic Law, History, and Class in Early Nineteenth Century India
Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton)
Sep 18, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204

Cosponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 28d
RELS alumna Olivia Haynie has written this column for The Forward about her time working with Prof. Schaefer's False Image of History Project.
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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · 28d
Researcher Olivia Haynie has written about her time working on the False Image of History Project and what it taught her about comparisons between Confederate commemoration and Nazism for her latest column in The Forward @forward.com.

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What Black journalists covering Confederate monuments taught me about fighting antisemitism today
Black journalists chronicling the afterlife of the Confederacy provide a framework to, as one wrote, 'historicize the dynamics of oppression.'
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 28d
Happening tomorrow! Our first RELS 2025–2026 colloquium featuring Elizabeth Ault @lizault.bsky.social (Senior Editor, Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social)!

How (and Why) to Write an Academic Book in Impossible Times

Thurs., Sept. 11, 3:30–5:00 pm
Cohen 392
How (and Why) to Write an Academic Book in Impossible Times RELS Colloquium Elizabeth Ault (Duke University Press) Sep 11, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 392 This talk will focus on some of the most common issues that first-time authors face during the writing and publishing process, including some broader discussion of the current environment facing scholars and publishers alike. Most of the session will focus on conversation intended to help junior (and other!) scholars consider the purpose and reach of their writing, as well as the nuts and bolts of finding the right publisher and working with an acquisitions editor. Please bring questions! Elizabeth Ault is a Senior Editor at Duke University Press, which she joined in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Trained in an interdisciplinary field, she pursues projects that reach outward across disciplines and academic conversations in surprising ways (including work by activists and organizers), that connect historical and emerging conditions, and that are committed to engaging with race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. She works with the editors of several book series, including Practices , Black Feminism on the Edge, ASTERISK, Theory in Forms, and Camera Obscura . You can find Elizabeth at conferences about religion, American studies, women's studies, African studies, sociology, and geography, working with scholars in trans studies, disability studies, critical ethnic studies, Black geographies, witch studies, and more. N.B.: This event will be held in COHN 392! Cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of English, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies/The Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Penn.
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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 28d
The Data Driven Discovery Initiative has a new Undergraduate Data Science Fellows Grant Program, which provides financial support, mentorship, & access to resources for students pursuing ambitious, data-driven research.

Apply here by Oct 3: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Sep 8
Mark your calendars for these other exciting events coming up in our colloquium series this semester!
The Sound of Mormonism RELS Colloquium Jared Farmer (Penn History) Dec 4, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 In media studies, scholars use a special adjective to describe the kind of sound that is heard without the cause of the sound being seen: acousmatic. Latter-­day Saints have a distinctive record of producing as well as receiving such sounds. Jared Farmer’s research focuses on music and speech performances transmitted by radio waves from the Salt Lake Tabernacle, the temple of LDS broadcasting. Two programs stand out. One is General Conference, the semiannual gathering in April and October when the faithful listen—­in person or to a live transmission or to simulcast recordings on delayed broadcast—to solemn addresses by Church leaders, with choral interludes. The other is Music and the Spoken Word—radio’s longest-running program, which recently marked its 5,000th consecutive weekly broadcast—featuring the Tabernacle Organ and Choir at Temple Square, and an ecumenical message by a commenter. By studying the Mormon acousmatic, we can better understand relationships between religion, music, and vocality, and tensions between worshipful loudness and devotional quietude. Attendees are welcome to download and read Prof. Farmer's open-access book, The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-Day Saints . Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books, all of which, to some degree, concern the sacralization and desacralization of spaces and places. Image: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Mount Rushmore, July 23, 1962, performing as part of the first live transatlantic television broadcast using the Telstar 1 satellite. Link to "The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-Day Saints" Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health and Modernity in Indonesia RELS Colloquium Chiara Formichi (Cornell) Oct 2, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 Domestic Nationalism argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. Women from all walks of life were called upon to fulfill domestic and motherly roles for the production and socialization of laborers, soldiers, and citizens, and pushed against the boundaries imposed on them by states and patriarchal orders. In this talk I will discuss how they rearticulated scientific mothering, nationalist maternalism, and Islamic ideals of motherhood to create a public voice through gendered care work, and the methodological challenges of doing so. Chiara Formichi is Director of the Religious Studies Program and Professor in Asian Studies at Cornell University. She specializes on Islam in Southeast Asia focusing on the intersection of religion, politics and society in colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Chiara’s third monograph, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Cosponsored by the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement RELS Colloquium Judith Weisenfeld (Princeton) Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key precipitating factor. This talk explores late nineteenth and early twentieth-century psychiatric theories about race, religion, and the “normal mind” and shows how the emerging specialty of psychiatry drew on works from history of religions to make racialized claims about African Americans’ “traits of character, habit, and behavior.” This history of the intersections of psychiatry and African American religions sheds light on how ideas about race, religion, and mental normalcy shaped African American experience in courts and mental hospitals and on the role the racialization of religion played more broadly in the history of medicine, legal history, and the history of disability. Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her books include Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, and Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake. Islamic Law, History, and Class in Early Nineteenth Century India RELS Colloquium Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton) Sep 18, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204 Muhammad Qasim Zaman This talk examines contestations in early nineteenth century India on the question of religiously-suspect innovations. While such contestations go back to early Islam, three things stand out in how the question was debated at the time under discussion here. At issue, first, were rival conceptions of Islam’s history. Second, latent in the anti-innovation campaign were some unexpected possibilities for growth and change in Islamic law in early colonial modernity. Third, there was a significant class dimension to these contestations, which sheds some new light on the backgrounds of the dueling camps and of those caught between them. Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Niehaus Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. His writings include The Ulama in Contemporary Islam, Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age, and Islam in Pakistan. Among his current projects is a book on Islamic thought in early modern India.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Sep 8
The first RELS 2025–2026 colloquium is a special event with Elizabeth Ault @lizault.bsky.social (Senior Editor, Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social)!

How (and Why) to Write an Academic Book in Impossible Times
Thurs., Sept. 11, 3:30–5:00 pm
Cohen 392

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How (and Why) to Write an Academic Book in Impossible Times RELS Colloquium Elizabeth Ault (Duke University Press) Sep 11, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 392 This talk will focus on some of the most common issues that first-time authors face during the writing and publishing process, including some broader discussion of the current environment facing scholars and publishers alike. Most of the session will focus on conversation intended to help junior (and other!) scholars consider the purpose and reach of their writing, as well as the nuts and bolts of finding the right publisher and working with an acquisitions editor. Please bring questions! Elizabeth Ault is a Senior Editor at Duke University Press, which she joined in 2012 after receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Trained in an interdisciplinary field, she pursues projects that reach outward across disciplines and academic conversations in surprising ways (including work by activists and organizers), that connect historical and emerging conditions, and that are committed to engaging with race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. She works with the editors of several book series, including Practices , Black Feminism on the Edge, ASTERISK, Theory in Forms, and Camera Obscura . You can find Elizabeth at conferences about religion, American studies, women's studies, African studies, sociology, and geography, working with scholars in trans studies, disability studies, critical ethnic studies, Black geographies, witch studies, and more. N.B.: This event will be held in COHN 392! Cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of English, the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies/The Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Penn.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Sep 5
Congratulations to recent Religious Studies BA graduate Gabriella Raffetto, who debuted her new play "Skeletons" at the New York Theater Festival this summer!

Read more about the play here:

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SKELETONS - New York Theater Festival
* by G. R. Ariadne * * * * TUESDAY July 29, 2025 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY July 30, 2025 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY August 2, 2025 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb Who doesn’t love the holidays? Uncles getting drunk as parent...
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Aug 22
Here's Prof. Anthea Butler's latest for @msnbc.com, a commentary on the passing of James Dobson.
Opinion | James Dobson’s harsh, disciplinarian Christianity changed GOP politics
Discipline rooted in fear, not love, was a hallmark of Dobson’s teachings and a hallmark of his writings about children.
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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · Aug 22
My latest on the death of James Dobson-
Opinion | James Dobson’s harsh, disciplinarian Christianity changed GOP politics
Discipline rooted in fear, not love, was a hallmark of Dobson’s teachings and a hallmark of his writings about children.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Aug 21
Take a look at what Prof. Schaefer has been up to with former RELS students Olivia Haynie and Justin Seward!
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The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social · Aug 21
Curious what the False Image of History Project is all about?

Here's an overview with project leader Donovan Schaefer on the origins of the project (and the meaning of the name!) as part of a Virginia Humanities Public Humanities Fellowship at the Library of Virginia.

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Virginia Humanities Fellow Donovan Schaefer Introduces the "False Image of History" Website
YouTube video by LibraryofVa
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Aug 18
Calling Penn alums! Prof. Robb is teaching a Lifelong Learning Seminar on "Can Sports Be a Religion?" featuring a series of prerecorded lectures and live online discussions!

Details and registration at this link.
Lifelong Learning Seminars
Designed exclusively for the Penn alumni community, the Lifelong Learning Seminar Series offers the chance to delve into thought-provoking topics with faculty experts. Login from wherever you are in the world to view a weekly asynchronous lecture and attend a synchronous session where you'll engage in lively discussion and expand your knowledge in the company of other intellectually curious alumni.
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Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · Jul 17
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Claire Elliot, whose research on dreaming practices in Thailand will be supported by a Fulbright grant next year!

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Penn students and alumni awarded Fulbright 2025-26 U.S. Student Program grants | Penn Today
As of early July, 17 Penn students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2025-26 academic year. They will conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, or teach Engli...
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Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · Jul 10
the latest from RD: @feelingtheory.bsky.social reflects on the Scopes Trial centennial -- and what we still need to learn about "Science v. Religion"

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Of Monkeys and Men — 100 Years since the Scopes Trial and Still Missing the Bigger Picture on Science v. Religion
A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the theor...
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