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Hannah M Strømmen
@hannahmstrommen.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture, Lund University. Biblical reception obsessive.
Nice to see this was on display even if I couldn’t be there to see it (and everyone) in person! #AARSBL2025
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Don't forget to pick up your display copies from SBL Press in booth 301 before Noon! #AARSBL2025
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Excited to see this in the flesh at the AAR/SBL. @tristansturm.bsky.social and Andrew Crome have put together an excellent volume. I have a chapter on political theology and apocalypticism which is the first published version of my work on what I'm calling new apocalyptic tones.
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Definitely go to this if you’re in Boston, Tommy’s papers are always brilliant!
If anyone's attending the AAR this year, I'll be presenting on 'Cruel Hope: The Dilemmas of Polycrisis Cinema' at 0900 on Tuesday.
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Special Issue: The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
VOLUME 21, NO 2 (2025)
bibleandcriticaltheory.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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‘It’s possible that the history of printing is a stitched-together story of the movement of knowledge from East to West, rather as paper-making spread from Asia through the Arab world from the eighth century.’

Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on Gutenberg.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Why does the First Amendment often fail to stand as a bulwark against official religious prejudice, as was the case with the Muslim ban? My latest for Canopy Forum, drawing on my new book Heaven Has a Wall.
"No Kings?: Plenitudo potestatis and the sanctity of US national security" by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd - Canopy Forum
Doctrine of the Two Swords by Unknown (US-PD) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. In the domain of...
canopyforum.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
There are many good reasons to cancel your Spotify subscription, not least the fact the platform is now running advertisements for ICE.
Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New issue out in The Bible and Critical Theory journal. Special issue this time on The Bible after José Esteban Muñoz: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...
VOLUME 21, NO 2 (2025)
bibleandcriticaltheory.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Open postdoc position (2 years) in religion and migration in my ERC project ”Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical”. Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - come work in a fabulous team!
Postdoc in Migration Studies (2 years)
We are looking for a candidate who, during two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, wishes to develop their independence as a researcher and contribute
lu.varbi.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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📣 I’m teaching a National Gallery online course about Saints this December!

💡If you’re curious about art, storytelling, or just want to show off in an art gallery, then book now to join the fun.

🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/sacred-stories-saints-in-art-december-2025-0
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Dianne van den Bosch and I wrote about the EU Migration Pact for the Canopy Forum: "The Pact’s silence on 'race' and 'religion' allows the EU to present itself as a neutral arbiter... This self-presentation counters any call for justice ... before such a call could even be made."
"Migration Policy behind the Veil of Ignorance: “Race” and “Religion” in the 2024 EU Migration Pact" by Ulrich Schmiedel and Dianne van den Bosch - Canopy Forum
European Union Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels by Estonian Foreign Ministry (CC BY 2.0) This article is part of our series on Law, Religion, and Immigration. If you’d like to explore other article...
canopyforum.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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An amazing and essential book for our times! I am grateful to be in the room for this set of panelists and their conversation about the #apocalypse and #immigration in the USA.
Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My article on the use of “Render unto Caesar” to support secularism and exclude Islam is published in Critical Research on Religion (open access): doi.org/10.1177/2050...
Rendering unto Caesar: Receptions of the Bible as a source for secularism - Hannah M Strømmen, 2025
In this article, I identify a key trend for demarcating the “secular” as a Western, Christian achievement. I analyze how the New Testament story often known as ...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My article on the use of “Render unto Caesar” to support secularism and exclude Islam is published in Critical Research on Religion (open access): doi.org/10.1177/2050...
Rendering unto Caesar: Receptions of the Bible as a source for secularism - Hannah M Strømmen, 2025
In this article, I identify a key trend for demarcating the “secular” as a Western, Christian achievement. I analyze how the New Testament story often known as ...
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I am beyond excited to share that I am receiving this year’s Brooten Award from the Society of Biblical Literature for my paper, “The Monster at the End of This Essay: Incestuous Whores, Trans Monstrosity, and Genesis 38.” www.sbl-site.org/news/announc...
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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TWO NEW POSITIONS IN HISTORICAL & SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

Two new positions in historical and systematic theology are now advertised for the Religion and Theology research program within the IRCI and FTP: PD attached. The application deadline is 23:59 AEST on 5 November.

www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/ca...
Religion and Theology
ACU’s IRCI researches biblical and early Christian studies, medieval and early modern studies, philosophy, religion and theology.
www.acu.edu.au
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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My review of @bethhurd.bsky.social's Haven Has A Wall (@uchicagopress.bsky.social): "captivating reading, a tour de force in political theology. ... Hurd shows clearly and compellingly that religion animates what appears as secular. Whether revered or reviled, religion is to be reckoned with.”
Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States
Published in Journal of Contemporary Religion (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Es regnet gerade Stellen am BIM: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt „The Democratic Potential of Religion“ mit vorauss. 2/3-Teilzeitbeschäftigung, befristet für 3 Jahre und 6 Monate. Bewerbungsfrist: 15.10.25. Viel Glück! Alle Infos hier: www.bim.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles...
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt „The Democratic Potential of Religion“
www.bim.hu-berlin.de
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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All are invited to Biblical Public Scholars(hip) in Perilous Times, a webinar that explores shared concern of the increasing vulnerability of biblical scholars who engage in public scholarship. Register Today! buff.ly/jzsmwpT.
Webinar Announcement: Biblical Public Scholars(hip) in Perilous Times - Society of Biblical Literature
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 9: Registration is now open for the Biblical Public Scholars(hip) in Perilous Times Webinar. Visit the registration page to learn more.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Reading the Bible amid the Environmental Crisis:
Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermeneutics"
Sébastien Doane
www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-t...
September 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A highlight this morning at #IAHR: the first two volumes of a planned 7-volume set on Global Secularity.
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Not here? No problem. The whole series is open access!
You can read all volumes here as they cone out: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/glose...
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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It's out! Written together by activists and academics who are concerned with faith-based refugee relief in Europe; edited by Anna Hjälm, Ryszard Bobrowicz, and yours truly.
Living in a World of Neighbours- Wipf and Stock Publishers
Migration is stirring up controversy across Europe. Politicians and pundits point to clashes that flare up--or so the story goes--when people of different re...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM