A great new issue of Politics and Religion @apsareligion.bsky.social just dropped, covering politics of changing religiosity in Burundi and Taiwan, the Muslim Brotherhood in IR of the ME, Catholicism and migration, religiosity and terror threat perceptions, and measuring support for Sharia
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Politics and Religion: Volume 19 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Politics and Religion - Volume 19 - Issue 3
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September 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
A great new issue of Politics and Religion @apsareligion.bsky.social just dropped, covering politics of changing religiosity in Burundi and Taiwan, the Muslim Brotherhood in IR of the ME, Catholicism and migration, religiosity and terror threat perceptions, and measuring support for Sharia
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Using data from the Kettering Foundation and Gallup’s Democracy for All Project, KF Research Fellow @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social explores the strong connection between religious participation and civic engagement in America: https://bit.ly/4gLcjge
Are Religiously Active Americans More Civically Engaged?
Data from the 2025 Democracy for All Project from the Kettering Foundation and Gallup provide some answers.
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August 29, 2026 at 5:40 PM
65:3 🐟️
🛐 How is #Secularisation changing the way we vote?
@melff.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Kamil Marcinkiewicz examine patterns in Western Europe to find how the relationship between religion and vote choice have changed over time🗳️
🛐 How is #Secularisation changing the way we vote?
@melff.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Kamil Marcinkiewicz examine patterns in Western Europe to find how the relationship between religion and vote choice have changed over time🗳️
After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
After secularisation? A comparative analysis of religious cleavages in Western Europe - Volume 65 Issue 3
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August 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Check out Erdi Ozturk's important new study out now with Routledge: The Transnationalisation of Turkish Islam
#polisky #polrel #turkey #islam
#polisky #polrel #turkey #islam
The Transnationalisation of Turkish Islam: Authority, Legitimacy, and Influence Beyond Borders
The Transnationalisation of Turkish Islam builds on current academic debates pertaining to the use of religion in global politics. By examining how and why religion is used as a tool for foreign polic...
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August 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The section is soliciting nominations to fill 2 seats on the section’s Executive Committee for a two-year term from 2026-2028. connect.apsanet.org/s11/nominati...
Nominations for Executive Committee
The section is soliciting nominations to fill 2 seats on the section’s Executive Committee for a two-year term from 2026-2028. All section members who have completed their PhDs and hold a post-graduat...
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August 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
📚 ECPS Book Review
📖 The Political Theologies of Populism: The Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905–1930
🔍 What connects the Ku Klux Klan, Marcus Garvey's movement, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Trumpism, BLM, and democratic socialism? 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-politica...
📖 The Political Theologies of Populism: The Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905–1930
🔍 What connects the Ku Klux Klan, Marcus Garvey's movement, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Trumpism, BLM, and democratic socialism? 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-politica...
July 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion seeks dynamic and reliable leadership for its Executive Office. This is a part-time, remote, independent consultant position. We invite candidates to submit a CV and letter of interest by July 31, 2026. sssreligion.org/announcement...
July 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Really interesting new study at Politics and Religion demonstrating the impact of the January 6th riot on declining religiosity and declining identification with the Republican Party @apsareligion.bsky.social #polrel
#OpenAccess from Politics and Religion -
Backlash to Christian nationalism: The impact of the January 6th insurrection on Americans’ religiosity and political partisanship - https://cup.org/3RxTUL5
- David E. Campbell & Geoffrey C. Layman
#FirstView #Jan6
Backlash to Christian nationalism: The impact of the January 6th insurrection on Americans’ religiosity and political partisanship - https://cup.org/3RxTUL5
- David E. Campbell & Geoffrey C. Layman
#FirstView #Jan6
July 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Really interesting new study at Politics and Religion demonstrating the impact of the January 6th riot on declining religiosity and declining identification with the Republican Party @apsareligion.bsky.social #polrel
@norafisheronar.bsky.social fantastic volume, Contesting Pluralism(s)
Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond, now out in paperback at @universitypress.cambridge.org
#polrel #turkey
Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond, now out in paperback at @universitypress.cambridge.org
#polrel #turkey
Contesting Pluralism(s) | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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July 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
@norafisheronar.bsky.social fantastic volume, Contesting Pluralism(s)
Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond, now out in paperback at @universitypress.cambridge.org
#polrel #turkey
Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond, now out in paperback at @universitypress.cambridge.org
#polrel #turkey
Brilliant work and a critical review of the securitization and religion literature in #securitystudies by Jocelyne Cesari!
#polisky #polrel
#polisky #polrel
Securitization Paradigm and Religion
The securitization paradigm developed by the Copenhagen School examines how political elites construct threats through speech acts. When, after 9/11, the paradigm began to be applied to situations ...
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July 3, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Brilliant work and a critical review of the securitization and religion literature in #securitystudies by Jocelyne Cesari!
#polisky #polrel
#polisky #polrel
Jaeeun Kim of the University of Michigan has been awarded the Distinguished Article Award for article "Getting saved from illegality and unbelief? Religious asylum, migration dreams, and Christian conversion." Migration Studies 13.3 (2025)
June 25, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The next regional data review for the Religion and State project, round 4 #RAS4 focusing on #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean, by Jonathan Fox, Dennis Petri, and yours truly is up at the Review of Faith & International Affairs.
Happy reading!
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Happy reading!
#polrel
Government Religion Policy and Religious Freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1990 and 2023
The study of religion and politics in Latin America has traditionally emphasized the historical dominance of the Catholic Church and the region’s reputation as one heavily shaped by religion, while...
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June 24, 2026 at 12:39 PM
The next regional data review for the Religion and State project, round 4 #RAS4 focusing on #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean, by Jonathan Fox, Dennis Petri, and yours truly is up at the Review of Faith & International Affairs.
Happy reading!
#polrel
Happy reading!
#polrel
Excellent new work by Erdi Ozturk and @zeynepalemdar.bsky.social at the nexus of #polrel #nationalism and #populism, examining how these three concepts have become entangled under AKP rule in Turkey, helping explain their electoral appeal and legitimation strategies.
Sacralizing the nation: religion, nationalism, and populism in Turkey under AKP rule
This article analyses the entanglement of religion, nationalism, and populism in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Drawing on scholarship on nationalism and populism and on the ...
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June 23, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Excellent new work by Erdi Ozturk and @zeynepalemdar.bsky.social at the nexus of #polrel #nationalism and #populism, examining how these three concepts have become entangled under AKP rule in Turkey, helping explain their electoral appeal and legitimation strategies.
Happy to note my article at @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social w Marko Vekovic & Jonathan Fox is now in print issue 42:4, with other excellent #polrel contributions from @ailbhe-c.bsky.social on the ROC as anti-abortion lobbyist and Ekaterina Travova on the ROC's role in modern Russian autocracy
Governmental discrimination against religious minorities in the post-communist states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 1990–2023
This study examines patterns of governmental religious discrimination (GRD) against 182 religious minorities in 30 states and independent territories between 1990 and 2023 in the post-communist Eas...
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June 22, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Happy to note my article at @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social w Marko Vekovic & Jonathan Fox is now in print issue 42:4, with other excellent #polrel contributions from @ailbhe-c.bsky.social on the ROC as anti-abortion lobbyist and Ekaterina Travova on the ROC's role in modern Russian autocracy
Interesting new meta-analysis by @aecoppock.bsky.social and Radha Sarkar on the effects of religious messages and endorsements by religious leaders on political attitudes. Check it out!
#polisky #polrel
#polisky #polrel
The Effects of Religious Messages and Endorsements on Political Attitudes: A Meta-Reanalysis | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The Effects of Religious Messages and Endorsements on Political Attitudes: A Meta-Reanalysis
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June 14, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Interesting new meta-analysis by @aecoppock.bsky.social and Radha Sarkar on the effects of religious messages and endorsements by religious leaders on political attitudes. Check it out!
#polisky #polrel
#polisky #polrel
My book God's Angry Men is now published. I am so excited to share my work with the world. Want to know how rich people have used conspiracies, Christianity, and culture wars to get us to Project 2025?
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bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/6a105...
June 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Are you interested in religion, culture? → E. Peker. “Finding Religion: Immigration and the Populist (Re)Discovery of Christian Heritage in Western and Northern Europe”. In: Religions 13.2 (2022), p. 158. dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13020158.
June 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Exactly 2 years ago today, "Not So Innocent..." was published. It has been viewed more than 36,000 times so far at the International Security journal's website, with about 4,000 pdf downloads @intsecurity.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who made this possible! direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Abstract. Sizeable Jewish and Muslim communities lived across large swathes of medieval Western Europe. But all the Muslim communities and almost all the Jewish communities in polities that correspond...
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June 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The Jonathan Sacks Institute, Bar-Ilan University is accepting applicants for MA, PhD and Post-Doc scholarships for research that engages with the ideas and writings of R'Sacks in political studies, law, and social sciences in general.
Deadline: 30.6.2026
More info: sacks.institute@biu.ac.il
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Deadline: 30.6.2026
More info: sacks.institute@biu.ac.il
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June 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM
The Jonathan Sacks Institute, Bar-Ilan University is accepting applicants for MA, PhD and Post-Doc scholarships for research that engages with the ideas and writings of R'Sacks in political studies, law, and social sciences in general.
Deadline: 30.6.2026
More info: sacks.institute@biu.ac.il
#polrel
Deadline: 30.6.2026
More info: sacks.institute@biu.ac.il
#polrel
🚨 New article alert 🚨 Why do some local Islamist militant groups affiliate with al-Qaeda or the Islamic State, while others stay independent?
@nihadaboud.bsky.social argues that affiliation can be a response to weak domestic legitimacy.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
@nihadaboud.bsky.social argues that affiliation can be a response to weak domestic legitimacy.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
May 31, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵
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What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
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May 29, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Cool new study from @brooklynwalker.bsky.social & @pauldjupe.bsky.social finding that complementarian gender views strongly predict not only pronatalism for the nation itself, but also White natalism, Christian natalism, & wanting govt to make accessing birth control harder.
doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
Be Fruitful and Multiply? Complementarianism, Pronatalism, and Suppression of Reproductive Rights
At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious varia....
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May 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Interactive Timeline: Women and Religion
Explore the events and accomplishments related to women in the history of American religion. ARDA’s Timelines of American Religion place a wealth of information—including text, pictures, graphs, and more—within historical context.
Explore the events and accomplishments related to women in the history of American religion. ARDA’s Timelines of American Religion place a wealth of information—including text, pictures, graphs, and more—within historical context.
Interactive Display | Timelines | US Religion
Interactive Historical Timelines of US Religion With Details On People, Events and Movements
www.thearda.com
May 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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A recent special issue of the Review of Faith & International Affairs on "Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West", to which Jonathan Fox and I, among many other wonderful scholars, contributed, is now permanently open-access! Happy reading.
A recent special issue of the Review of Faith & International Affairs on "Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West", to which Jonathan Fox and I, among many other wonderful scholars, contributed, is now permanently open-access! Happy reading.
The Review of Faith & International Affairs
Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West. Volume 23, Issue sup1 of The Review of Faith & International Affairs
www.tandfonline.com
May 14, 2026 at 1:53 PM