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Samuel Perry
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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 · Nov 2
Thrilled and honored that my book Religion for Realists was given the 2025 Distinguished Book Award by @sssreligion.bsky.social last night.

It’s vital that we understand religion and religious people. The social sciences are remiss to ignore either.

Hire more religion specialists.

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 2h
There it is.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2h
Our book Taking America Back for God hit a big milestone today. Proud of this work and thrilled that it’s been a resource for scholars. @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 8h
Example # 2,303,301 of a clip I'd like to show Republican friends and ask them "You do know this administration says things like this because they think you're too stupid to know that's not how it works, right? You do know it's an insult, right?"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · 8h
What an honor for our documentary podcast When the Wolves Came to be named one of The Atlantic’s Top 20 Podcasts of 2025. Wild way to end a wild year!

Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Silvia Secchi

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."

Reposted by Juan Cole

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d
Sad for so many reasons. Cancer sucks. I feel for Ben Sasse and his family. And I wish we as a nation would invest more resources in cancer research.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Ben Sasse Says He Has Terminal Pancreatic Cancer
www.nytimes.com

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d
Iron Law of Extra Credit: Students who don't need the extra credit take advantage of it while the students who need it the most do not.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2d
Taken from this study in Sociology of Religion
doi.org/10.1093/socr...
Secularization and Gender: A Global Study of the Effects of Women’s Employment on Religious Decline
Abstract. The role of women, and in particular their participation in the labor force, is an understudied factor in explaining patterns of secularization.
doi.org

Reposted by Robert C. Richards

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2d
Something I talk about in my book Religion for Realists. It's okay to recognize right-wing Christians *are correct* that egalitarian gender arrangements likely contribute to religious decline.

You can disagree with their response strategy (shoring up patriarchal norms), but they're rightly afraid.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 3d
Currently enjoying this new one from Randall Ballmer this morning.

Short and to the point. Good primer for documenting the Founders’ insistence on religious freedom, not just “toleration” for other religious or non-religious groups.

Recommended.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 4d
I will never understand the ebbs and flows of Presidential approval ratings, which suggests to me they are almost completely useless as a forecaster of anything.

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 5d
Holy crap chart from Gallup

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d
True. I’ve just never found one better than “Frankenstein’s monster made entirely of human flaws.”

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d
When the headline says “repeats numerous false claims,“ what CNN apparently means is “every statement out of his mouth was an outrageous lie that is easily debunked.”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...
Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in prime-time address | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night. Here is a fact check.
www.cnn.com

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d
Yeah Walters resigned to run a private org that tries to destroy teachers unions. New guy was appointed and seems committed to transparency and actually improving OK public education in ways not related to culture warring.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d
Night and day difference between the new State Superintendent (who seems like a decent man and someone committed to just doing a good job) and Ryan Walters who was the biggest disaster in OK politics in a generation.
www.koco.com/article/okla...
Oklahoma State Department of Education responds to court blocking social studies standards
The department, which is now led by State Superintendent Lindel Fields, said it respects the court's decision and is committed to transparency.
www.koco.com

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 9d
Right-wing provocateurs don't even bother to hide their racism anymore, unless you count phrasing these things in the form of a question.

Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Jens Rydgren

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 9d
Fascinating new research in AJPS (flagship poli sci journal) on Christian nationalism & SCOTUS

"An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court"

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

"We find that CN is related to Court attitudes in three ways:"

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 9d
"If you found out that a political candidate you support said that Adolf Hitler did some good things, would you still be willing to vote for that candidate?

41% of Republicans and 46% of adults planning on voting Trump in 2024 said yes.

survey: perma.cc/28EA-HDRU

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Nandita Sharma, Steve Peers , and 4 more

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d
Feverishly working on this

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 9d
Despicable.

Only months after Kirk's assassination, when we are all reaffirming our commitments to non-violence and free speech, Trump posts that the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife are really Rob's own fault. Basically saying "That's what happens when you make people mad for criticizing me."

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 9d
Stuff like that reveals how transparently (not to them) and ignorantly partisan their gripes really are. But it's also a grift. The only reason folks know about most of these dudes is Twitter + podcasts/youtube, all built on being provocateurs. So they gotta keep dishing "us vs. them" rage.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 9d
I‘m prolly the wrong guy to ask as I just read their books.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 10d
Hearing these dudes speak at Webbon’s Right Response “Trashworld” conference last April, it was clear how much COVID radicalized some of these guys. They talked about it all the time.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 10d
When you read books by self-identifying Christian nationalists the talk of death-spiral-cultural-decline & overt persecution is often their most prominent theme. Descriptions are so exaggerated that they can’t be described as hyperbole or rhetoric. Only options are lying propaganda and/or delusion.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11d
Certainly feel like the version of younger priest is the more compelling and prosocial.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11d
I'm gonna need an advance on all the Amazon gift cards I expect to get this Christmas.

Sam needs his new books like now.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11d
Agreed. Just watched.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 11d
He was excellent from start to finish. Huge talent.