Author of _Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, & Worlds without End_, out in Spring 2022 with Fordham University Press.
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2007
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In our new Under the Rubic feature, "After Life," @jonbialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death. Don't sleep on it!
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Also new on FirstView: @jonbialecki's "The #Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious #Transhumanism."
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"Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game" by Jon Bialecki is available to read now #OpenAccess from the latest issue of Social Analysis: bit.ly/4bI2pId @jonbialecki
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Terrific reflection - in an anthropological key - on revival and the Asbury revival in particular by @jonbialecki Makes fascinating connections to political currents at work in Evangelicalism politicaltheology.com/asbury…
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nice forum on andreas bandak's _exemplary life: modelling sainthood in christian syria_ berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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🚨 New paperback alert!
Edited by @Eric_Hoenes, @roscoe_loustau, and Kristin Norget, Mediating Catholicism examines how Catholics consume, produce, and engage with media in their religious lives.
Order here: bit.ly/3N96iM2
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I wrote a thing about the various ways Mormons have interpreted UFOs.
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If you're unsure if you want to learn more about alien abduction and its relationship with politics, religion and race in the 1960s, Yale's made a preview for my book. Come for the crop circles, stay for the Unitarians.
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Buy it:
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Very happy to see that my article: "Beyond Church and State: Contentions of Minority Citizenship in Egypt" has been published: muse.jhu.edu/article/904736. Please DM me for a copy. #Copts #Egypt #citizenship #sectarianism
🚨Proofs for my new article “Beyond Church and State” from the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies @FordhamOrthodox. The article focuses on minority citizenship in Egypt not as appeal to the law/state, but as social debate in search of shared life. It asks: (1/)
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Thank you, readers! 🙏 Wow, after 4.5 years my article in Anthropological Theory is still one of the most read in the journal during the last 6 months. Nearing 3000 views..."No Such Thing as 'a' Concept"...with free access. Thank you again 🌻🧉🥂journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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This Thursday at 6:30! Join us online for a conversation on Black faith with @todnethomas, @MelissaFordPhD, and Su'ad Abdul Khabeer.
On May 6 at 6:30 PM at the @SchomburgCenter, take a look at Black life, art and struggle through the lens of different faith traditions and the role faith plays in freedom making projects. Register now for this panel discussion, in person or online. on.nypl.org/3oW8gWP
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✨Still in shock, but excited to announce that I have been awarded the @AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship for 2023-2024! Looking forward to refining my book, “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire.” – at Starkville, MS
✨ Today is fellowships and grants notification day. AAUW is proud to award $6.3 million to 285 awardees this year! Please join us in congratulating all of them!! ✨ bit.ly/3uR6ZhB
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Please join us on 4/18 for "Astrology: Ancient Symbols in Modern Times," sponsored by @IRCPL_Columbia, where I will be moderating what is sure to be a fascinating discussion with @LeisaSchaim, @UnlockAstrology, & @ddamascenaa.
Info/registration:
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When I started two decades ago, I imagined that one day I’d get to contribute to this kind of scholarship. Today I received my copy of a new volume that was years in the making.
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Emphasising ethnographic depth and theoretical innovation, 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity' provides researchers with rich sources of comparison and new analytical frameworks. @jonbialecki @hillarykaell @HenniAlava
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3YCaI1Z
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If you are Orthodox Christian, or a scholar of Eastern Orthodoxy, please take a look! If you are interested in presenting a paper, contact me! We still have a few places. (And there is some funding available to help speakers with costs.)
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Hello! Here's my review essay of two compelling and provocative books on Latin America, which will make us ask new questions--out in the December issue of AA and on academia :) (I posted the PDF, but it is not previewing properly yet--I don't know why..) academia.edu/92901459/Rethin…
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Eric Hoenes Del Pinal, co-editor of ‘Mediating Catholicism’ also came to say hello to us at stand #911/913! Find it and more discounted books here at #AARSBL22 📚
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My article "The Charism of the Christian Left Dissidence as Habit in a Time of Bi-polar Theopolitics" in Cambridge Journal of Anthropology.
on global Christianity, habitus, and liberation theology in anthropological perspective. #OpenAccess #anthropology berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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For those heading to #AmAnth2022 soon, mark your agenda with @RiccardiSwartz and I’s organized @AnthroReligion roundtable on religion and the far-right in global perspective this coming Thursday at 6:30 PST. We have an incredible line-up!
Co-organized w/@RiccardiSwartz, this roundtable for #AmAnth2022 + @AnthroReligion has an incredible line-up incl @ZareenaGrewal, @raejereza, @melodeV, Agnieszka Pasieka, Pinky Hota, and Susan Harding as discussant.
