Author of _Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, & Worlds without End_, out in Spring 2022 with Fordham University Press.
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2007
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Excited/terrified to see that Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds Without End has a launch date of March 1st. Get it on Amazon, or at a real bookstore and ever so slightly retard Bezo's hostile takeover of the solar system. amazon.com/Machines-Making-G…
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In our new Under the Rubic feature, "After Life," @jonbialecki and Jeanne Kormina discuss Mormon transhumanism, the remains of Tsar Nicholas II, and the multiple temporalities of death. Don't sleep on it!
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Also new on FirstView: @jonbialecki's "The #Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious #Transhumanism."
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MAIL CALL: happy to get a copy of the latest book from the book series I edit with James Bielo, Naomi Haynes Zhu, and Hillary Kaell. #anthropology #ethnography
I'm particularly proud to be associated with this title because this is a book that, absent our book series and the Balzan project (the organization that paid for translating this manuscript), might not have been made available to English language scholars.
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"Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game" by Jon Bialecki is available to read now #OpenAccess from the latest issue of Social Analysis: bit.ly/4bI2pId @jonbialecki
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Terrific reflection - in an anthropological key - on revival and the Asbury revival in particular by @jonbialecki Makes fascinating connections to political currents at work in Evangelicalism politicaltheology.com/asbury…
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nice forum on andreas bandak's _exemplary life: modelling sainthood in christian syria_ berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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🚨 New paperback alert!
Edited by @Eric_Hoenes, @roscoe_loustau, and Kristin Norget, Mediating Catholicism examines how Catholics consume, produce, and engage with media in their religious lives.
Order here: bit.ly/3N96iM2
In the latest edition of Suomen Antropologi, Ilana Gershon with a thought-provoking linguistic #anthropology analysis of ChatGPT & other LLMS as "genre machines" #AI #ethnography journal.fi/suomenantropologi…
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I wrote a thing about the various ways Mormons have interpreted UFOs.
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A really thoughtful and generous review of my book _Machines for Making Gods_, with the reviewer writing from a faithful Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints standpoint. wayfaremagazine.org/p/charit…
The review is part of a larger forum in Wayfarer magazine on AI and features other really considered and insightful essays by, among others, @cayblood and @bjpeters. wayfaremagazine.org/p/genera…
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If you're unsure if you want to learn more about alien abduction and its relationship with politics, religion and race in the 1960s, Yale's made a preview for my book. Come for the crop circles, stay for the Unitarians.
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Buy it:
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Very happy to see that my article: "Beyond Church and State: Contentions of Minority Citizenship in Egypt" has been published: muse.jhu.edu/article/904736. Please DM me for a copy. #Copts #Egypt #citizenship #sectarianism
🚨Proofs for my new article “Beyond Church and State” from the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies @FordhamOrthodox. The article focuses on minority citizenship in Egypt not as appeal to the law/state, but as social debate in search of shared life. It asks: (1/)
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Thank you, readers! 🙏 Wow, after 4.5 years my article in Anthropological Theory is still one of the most read in the journal during the last 6 months. Nearing 3000 views..."No Such Thing as 'a' Concept"...with free access. Thank you again 🌻🧉🥂journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
A characteristically brilliant article from Courtney Handman on the links between language, humanity, and deception - with a wonderfully audacious scope running from late 19th century Papua New Guinea to 21st century artificial intelligence: cambridge.org/core/services/…
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This Thursday at 6:30! Join us online for a conversation on Black faith with @todnethomas, @MelissaFordPhD, and Su'ad Abdul Khabeer.
On May 6 at 6:30 PM at the @SchomburgCenter, take a look at Black life, art and struggle through the lens of different faith traditions and the role faith plays in freedom making projects. Register now for this panel discussion, in person or online. on.nypl.org/3oW8gWP
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✨Still in shock, but excited to announce that I have been awarded the @AAUW American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship for 2023-2024! Looking forward to refining my book, “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire.” – at Starkville, MS
✨ Today is fellowships and grants notification day. AAUW is proud to award $6.3 million to 285 awardees this year! Please join us in congratulating all of them!! ✨ bit.ly/3uR6ZhB
