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2025 Press Freedom Rank
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Can’t wait to read this important new book!
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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · Aug 27
I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
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by Thomas A. Tweed

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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS South Bend” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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In the first official document of his papacy, Pope Leo placed the poor at the heart of the Catholic Church’s teaching, calling bishops around the world to take on the mantle of social justice in defense of the most vulnerable in society, including migrants.
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Pope Leo calls on Catholics to care for the poor in first official exhortation
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Leo picks up where Francis left off, when the Latin American pontiff called for a ‘preferential treatment for the poor’ and the need for a ‘poor church for the poor.’
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Pope Leo XIV enters US political fray, challenging "inhuman treatment of immigrants" —> religionnews.com/2025/10/01/p...
Pope Leo XIV enters US political fray, challenging 'inhuman treatment of immigrants'
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first American pope weighed in on a controversy roiling the Chicago diocese, telling journalists the Catholic Church’s political positions include more than opposing abortion.
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by Thomas A. Tweed

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Yes, my thanks to the Cushwa Center and to all the participants for the wonderful discussion!
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Peter J. Thuesen @peterjthuesen.bsky.social · 18d
Back from South Bend and the Cushwa Center's Dolan Seminar in American Religion, which featured a rousing discussion this morning of Tom Tweed's remarkable new book, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (@yalepress.bsky.social). What a treat!
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Back from South Bend and the Cushwa Center's Dolan Seminar in American Religion, which featured a rousing discussion this morning of Tom Tweed's remarkable new book, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (@yalepress.bsky.social). What a treat!
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COMING VERY SOON: American Religion's newsletter! Subscribe now for periodic memos about upcoming journal issues, important announcements, website series, and more!
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Millions of Americans with Obamacare could face steep price increases if Congress lets extra funding expire in December.
Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year
Extensive subsidies that reduce premium costs for millions are set to expire, unless Congress extends them.
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We were lucky to live in a country where Kirk could say anything, ugly as it was; now we're in one where talk-show hosts can say nothing. This admin yearns to criminalize dissent, and as I note at @commonweal.bsky.social, Kirk's death is one more pretext www.commonwealmagazine.org/preziosi-kir...
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See Susan B. Reynolds’ call for “documentary accompaniment” in this issue!
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My latest for @commonweal.bsky.social is out today — on ICE, the Church, and documentary justice www.commonwealmagazine.org/pinochet-tru...
The Pinochet Parallels
'Second-term Trump has put me in mind of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.'
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The September issue is here! Inside:
- @susanbreynolds.bsky.social on Trump and Pinochet
- Phil Christman on economics and Christianity
- @heidischlumpf.bsky.social on Catholic 'mom bloggers'
- Lynn Casteel Harper on the virtues of solitude
And more!
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I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with
@dukepress.bsky.social in October!
Book cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
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Job: Associate or Full Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College specializing in modern American Christianity. Deadline: October 1, 2025.
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Job #AJO30302, Full Professor/Advanced Associate Professor - Margaret W. Harmon Chair, Religious Studies, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
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In 7-Hour Vigil, Pope Leo’s Envoy Reads Every Child’s Name Killed in Gaza War
From an Italian church destroyed by Nazis, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi led a solemn roll call of more than 12,000 Palestinian and 16 Israeli children lost to war.
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Thanks, Conrad. This piece is helpful.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Aug 24
I just replied to a bunch of interesting questions.

Are you curious regarding anything else about religious decline around the world?
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Aug 23
I'll have a blog post soon about our new article "The three stages of religious decline around the world." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Meanwhile, do you have any questions about our research? We argue there's a similar pattern of secularization unfolding at different times around the world.
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I just replied to a bunch of interesting questions.

Are you curious regarding anything else about religious decline around the world?
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Aug 23
I'll have a blog post soon about our new article "The three stages of religious decline around the world." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Meanwhile, do you have any questions about our research? We argue there's a similar pattern of secularization unfolding at different times around the world.
The three stages of religious decline around the world - Nature Communications
Religious decline is happening around the world. Here, the authors show that countries are at different stages of a common global sequence of decline in religious participation, personal importance of...
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by Thomas A. Tweed

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Religion in the Lands That Became America
Podcast Episode · The Academic Life · 07/29/2025 · 1h 8m
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It was great to continue the conversation with Christina Gessler about hope, despair, and US history!
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Thomas Tweed @tomtweed.bsky.social · Aug 19
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Hope, Despair, and American History
An Academic Life newsletter bonus discussion with Dr. Thomas A. Tweed
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Hope, Despair, and American History
An Academic Life newsletter bonus discussion with Dr. Thomas A. Tweed
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“But I tried to figure out, could I reconstruct ordinary women's lives in some way? And that was turning to oral histories, company histories… so some of them are women we all should have known. But I also try to reach down and try to recover ones who we might not know as well.”
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by Thomas A. Tweed

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Can’t wait to talk about my book in Bryant Park on Wednesday at 7:00!
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Bryant Park is located between 40th and 42nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues behind the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman building.
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by Thomas A. Tweed

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A great piece on Pope Leo and women!
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · Jul 14
"It is already several generations too late to talk about making progress for women in the Church."

@mollieoreilly.bsky.social begs Pope Leo to avoid being 'weird about women':
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Pope Leo and Women
Instead of an assembly of men trying to come up with a theology that explains women, I want to see the Church settle on one theology for everyone.
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by Thomas A. Tweed

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Thanks so much for the generous review!
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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · Jul 3
A new history reconsiders who belongs in American religious history and what should count as religion

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What Counts as American Religion?
A new history history offers a corrective to narrow visions of American religion that begin with Plymouth Rock.
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