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Gerardo Martí

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William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowed Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | President SSSR | Past President ASR | Past Chair ASA Religion | Past Chair AAR Rel & Soc Sci | cv https://www.davidson.edu/people/gerardo-marti
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These bullet-point summaries are circulating
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T shirt in Arkansa today I’m Voting for The Felon
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HAPPY 4th 🎆🎇🎆 Prepping new Power & Politics course Open to suggestions, sample syllabi, &c. My notes keep changing as developments happen Goal: Distinctly sociological focus on power & unequality, recovering lost history largely ignored, sharp tools to reveal & explain “now,” empirically grounded
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Imperial POTUS backed by Imperial SCOTUS
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AMERICAN BLINDSPOT Published Jan 6 2020 & STILL relevant) ✍️ ... was almost titled: ✏️ The American Road to Trump ✏️ The America that Trump Won ✏️ Many Fine People: The Hidden History of Trump's America #polisky 👉 a.co/d/0i6LQwDJ
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Conservatives on the Court, like many conservatives today, think thoughts in an abstract world existing on paper, making equivalences & implications as easy as a comma or next sentence, w/o consideration of real people, real history, real consequences. Law by thesaurus, using preferred definitions.
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Nixon smiling, thumbs up, in his grave
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✨ Big Conference Registration Day ✨ ✈️ ASA & ASR in Montreal, August ✈️ SSSR in Pittsburgh, October Hope to see you there 🎉🎉🎉
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Martin Mull was one of my earliest “this is comedy?” people with his show Fernwood Tonight. His was one of the few comedy albums I played repeatedly.
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I would gladly teach the Christian Bible. The issue — would my scholarly approach to the origins, transmutations, and political uses of the text (from ancient to contemporary) acceptable curriculum?
Breaking News: Oklahoma’s state superintendent directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in the latest conservative push testing the boundaries between religious instruction and public education.
Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Biblewww.nytimes.com The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document” that must be taught in certain grades.
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>> QAnon conforms to a larger sociohistorical context, exhibiting a family resemblance with past nativist movements in America in its penchant for constructing us/them dichotomies pertaining to who is and is not considered “the people.” #polisky 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Asymmetric conflation: QAnon and the political cooptation of religion | Politics and Religion | Cambridge Corewww.cambridge.org Asymmetric conflation: QAnon and the political cooptation of religion - Volume 17 Issue 1
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Voters who support Biden & Trump have starkly different opinions on “culture war” issues like immigration, diversity, crime and policing, and family & reproductive issues. #polisky 👉 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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We Change Liver < local restaurant >
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Part of my reading today • first story good so far
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Non-residential #fellowship opportunity from PRRI w/ stipends, microgrants, professional development. Spread the word to mid-career scholars studying: - Religious, racial, & ethnic pluralism - Racial justice & white supremacy - Immigration & migration - LGBTQ rights - Reproductive health & rights
Careers and Fellowships | PRRIwww.prri.org Open Call: PRRI Public Fellowship Program 2024-2025 The PRRI Public Fellows program, founded in 2017, promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship through a cohort of emerging scholar-le...
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JUST PUBLISHED • Open Access “Latinx Blue Wave or Religious Red Shift? The Relationship between Evangelicalism, Church Attendance, and President Trump among Latinx Americans” Socius 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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🎉🎉🎉APPLY TODAY 🎉🎉🎉 PRRI Public Fellowship Program 2024-2025 Founded in 2017, promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship through a cohort of emerging scholar-leaders from across the social sciences, humanistic social sciences, and the humanities 👉 www.prri.org/about/career...
Careers and Fellowships | PRRIwww.prri.org Open Call: PRRI Public Fellowship Program 2024-2025 The PRRI Public Fellows program, founded in 2017, promotes and supports interdisciplinary public scholarship through a cohort of emerging scholar-le...
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Ruled by the Demons? Exploring the Relationship Between Belief in Demons and Public Attitudes Toward Donald Trump and Joe Biden 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2329... Stronger belief in demons associated w/negative views for Biden. Support for Trump found but demonic effect explained by Christian nationalism.
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JUST PUBLISHED • Open Access “Latinx Blue Wave or Religious Red Shift? The Relationship between Evangelicalism, Church Attendance, and President Trump among Latinx Americans” Socius 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Very rich new report from PRRI @prripoll.bsky.social 👏👏👏 Lots of graphs on race, religion, generational differences, structural racism, confederate monuments, &c. #polisky ✨ MUCH MORE 👉 www.prri.org/research/cre...
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Across all generations, white Americans score higher on structural racism scale than non-white Americans, as do those w/o a 4-yr college education, compared with those with 4-yr degree or higher. Predominantly white religious groups score highest on the index. MORE 👉 www.prri.org/research/cre...