Donovan Schaefer
@feelingtheory.bsky.social
Teaching/writing about emotion, secularism, & power at @upennrels.bsky.social
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
🏙️ Philly
✍️📚: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Current projects: Conspiracy theory, secular artifacts, Confederate commemoration
🐱🐱 Brighton & Bristol
🌱 ⓥ food
🏙️ Philly
✍️📚: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
I wrote a book about the many ways emotion is necessary for science, secularism, and atheism
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wrote a book about the many ways emotion is necessary for science, secularism, and atheism
We did it, #AARSBL25: Took the coldest conference possible and filled it with warmth. Every post-COVID AAR has been amazing but this was the best yet! Thanks, all, for an amazing weekend full of friendship, food, and conversation!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We did it, #AARSBL25: Took the coldest conference possible and filled it with warmth. Every post-COVID AAR has been amazing but this was the best yet! Thanks, all, for an amazing weekend full of friendship, food, and conversation!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
Now for the perfect finishing touch: a relaxing train ride home!
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My favorite trump is grubby emo trump
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My favorite trump is grubby emo trump
Whoever made this: salute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Whoever made this: salute.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
An outstanding special session of the American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social annual meeting here in Boston this afternoon on Judith Weisenfeld's @judithweisenfeld.com extraordinary book *Black Religion in the Madhouse*! #AARSBL25 #AARSBL
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
An outstanding special session of the American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social annual meeting here in Boston this afternoon on Judith Weisenfeld's @judithweisenfeld.com extraordinary book *Black Religion in the Madhouse*! #AARSBL25 #AARSBL
Also, very excited to be presiding at a special AAR session on Judith Weisenfeld's @judithweisenfeld.com vitally important book *Black Religion in the Madhouse,* an extraordinary study on the intersection of Black American religious history and science and religion!
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Also, very excited to be presiding at a special AAR session on Judith Weisenfeld's @judithweisenfeld.com vitally important book *Black Religion in the Madhouse,* an extraordinary study on the intersection of Black American religious history and science and religion!
Looking forward to participating in roundtable discussions of two wonderful books at #AARSBL this weekend! Myrna Perez's *Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy* and Ting Guo's *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China*!
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Looking forward to participating in roundtable discussions of two wonderful books at #AARSBL this weekend! Myrna Perez's *Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy* and Ting Guo's *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China*!
And on that note, I tried out Clover Food Labs (just behind the Convention Center in the food court) with @devriesious.bsky.social and it was amazing! #AARSBL #SBLAAR
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And on that note, I tried out Clover Food Labs (just behind the Convention Center in the food court) with @devriesious.bsky.social and it was amazing! #AARSBL #SBLAAR
Just some of the amazing treasures on offer at Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge, MA
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Just some of the amazing treasures on offer at Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge, MA
Moo yang BBQ vermicelli bowl, My Thai Vegan Cafe, Boston
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Moo yang BBQ vermicelli bowl, My Thai Vegan Cafe, Boston
In my response, "Religious Studies in the Garden of Academic Delights," I connect the three papers via the shared theme of how religious studies asserts its own affective priorities embedded in our disciplinary methods.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In my response, "Religious Studies in the Garden of Academic Delights," I connect the three papers via the shared theme of how religious studies asserts its own affective priorities embedded in our disciplinary methods.
Joseph Winters' "The Wildness of (Racialized) Experimentation" draws on Black studies and history of science to look again at the affective dimensions of race science.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Joseph Winters' "The Wildness of (Racialized) Experimentation" draws on Black studies and history of science to look again at the affective dimensions of race science.
Greg Given ( @greggiven.bsky.social ) and Maia Kotrosits's ( @maiakotro.bsky.social ) "Ars Botanica: Art, Science, and Comparison in Religious Studies" considers an affective foundation for the botanical method underlying the comparative approach of Jonathan Z. Smith.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Greg Given ( @greggiven.bsky.social ) and Maia Kotrosits's ( @maiakotro.bsky.social ) "Ars Botanica: Art, Science, and Comparison in Religious Studies" considers an affective foundation for the botanical method underlying the comparative approach of Jonathan Z. Smith.
Ellen T. Armour's paper, "Queer(y)ing How We See," takes my framework of "cogency theory" (the interlacing of thought and feeling that makes persuasion possible) and adds a visual dimension, focusing on the political potency of trans photography.
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Ellen T. Armour's paper, "Queer(y)ing How We See," takes my framework of "cogency theory" (the interlacing of thought and feeling that makes persuasion possible) and adds a visual dimension, focusing on the political potency of trans photography.
Very grateful to see this roundtable of responses to my book *Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin* ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) out now in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion!
This grew out of a book session at last year's American Academy of Religion annual meeting. ->
This grew out of a book session at last year's American Academy of Religion annual meeting. ->
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Very grateful to see this roundtable of responses to my book *Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin* ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) out now in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion!
This grew out of a book session at last year's American Academy of Religion annual meeting. ->
This grew out of a book session at last year's American Academy of Religion annual meeting. ->