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Samuel Perry

@profsamperry.bsky.social

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Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa .. more

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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 · Jun 15

I am so thrilled to share that my next book, "Fill the Earth and Subdue It: Religion, Power, and American Pronatalism" is under contract with Princeton University Press.

My goal is to have it in your hands by early 2028. @princetonupress.bsky.social @sssreligion.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d

New study @nature.com establishes predictors of White nationalism in the US. Among the predictors are higher worship attendance & belief that non-White and non-Christian groups have too much power, along with being low-SES, conservative, GOP, & politically disaffected.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States - Nature

Explicit support for white nationalism is uncommon overall, but higher among young white men, disadvantaged and politically disaffected white people, conservatives, Republicans, and those with primari...

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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Eric D. Knowles

Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

Reposted by Andrew L. Whitehead

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2d

Great new study from @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social at @socprobsjournal.bsky.social. Analyzing 21 years of data from the forum Stormfront, he shows the religious foundation of White nationalism is not solely Christian, but integrates Christian, pagan, & positivist repertoires.
doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Christian, pagan, positivist: the religious repertoires of white nationalism

ABSTRACT. Scholarship on the far right often treats Christianity as the dominant religious frame structuring contemporary white nationalist politics. I arg

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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Jack Stilgoe

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 2d

Cool cool cool. Problem solved.

“AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior”

More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”:

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