Dr. Kira Ganga Kieffer
@kirakieffer
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Scholar of American religions and religion & health // Ph.D. from BU // Book on religion and vaccine skepticism from Princeton University Press in 2024
Joined April 2009
I'm beyond excited to announce that I am working with @PrincetonUPress and @fredlewisappel on my upcoming book about religion and vaccine skepticism in modern American history. Stay tuned!
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Really informative and well-designed resource for studying and teaching about congregations. Check it out. š
Just in time for your fall course planning - a new and improved https://t.co/GZXMb5huZD! News, features, tools for study, huge bibliography! Anyone interested in most any kind of religious gathering will find something useful here.
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If this doesnāt scream āmarked for deletion,ā I donāt know what does.
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A new Religion for Breakfast video is up and...I wrote it! Watch @andrewmarkhenry and I trace the religious roots of manifesting and the law of attraction!
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I'm editing a special issue of @jssrjournal on religion and bodies. Anxious for great research to publish in this leading journal on anything from #food to #sexuality to #disability and more.
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100% cried during this humorous, sober, philosophical, and autobiographical lecture by my wonderful adviser @sprothero.
Thanks to Rich Barlow for this piece about my retirement from BU and my "last lecture," which he describes as "humorous and sober, philosophical and autobiographical." (Well, I was sober.) https://t.co/lLBBoE86tiā¦
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RFK Jr has been casting an increasingly wide net to bring religious and racial minority groups into the vaccine hesitancy cause, likening vaccination to targeted oppression and genocide. Fascinating that heās running as a Dem.
cnn.com
Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2024 as a Democrat.
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Canāt wait to get my hands on this one! I helped with some of the archival research, and it was phenomenal.
My new book, nearly a decade in the making, is out tomorrow. It tells the story of an editor and his authors, and how, in 100s of bestsellers, they fostered mistrust of organized religion and fascination with personal spirituality. #mlk #huxley #dorothyday
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Catholic organizations buying personal digital data to out clergy. There are so many disturbing parts of this story, but the reporting by @mboorstein @heatherkelly is phenomenal. https://t.co/lwzbdx7XxF
washingtonpost.com
The group used the data to find clerics who used Grindr and other dating and hookup apps and shared their work with bishops, a Post investigation has found.
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Amazing!
Artists have been using paper as a form of expression for thousands of years, through paper folding and intricate cutting techniques. Today, artists are redefining the art of paper. Here are 24 contemporary paper artists inspired by Islamic geometry & pattern A threadā¦
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Itās publication day! The Womenās Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam @NYUpress explores how American Muslim women assert themselves as religious actors at the intersections of gender, religious space, and national belonging. š https://t.co/nu6KvZujl1
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A $100 million campaign aims to fix Jesusā brand from followersā damage
washingtonpost.com
Ads featuring online videos about Jesus as a rebel, an activist or a host of a dinner party have been viewed more than 300 million times.
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Religious leaders challenging state abortion bans on the grounds of free exercise. This is how we fight our battles over personal sovereignty here in the U.S. ā with religious language and arguments. Great š§µ and reporting by @mboorstein :
NEW: Florida clergy in five new lawsuits say stateās new abortion ban violates their religious liberty. The Christian, Buddhist, Jewish and Unitarian clergy are part of a new legal campaign highlighting the range of religious views about abortion. 1/x https://t.co/InBlktfleY
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Applications are OPEN for the 2nd RESP Fellowship! Calling journos, editors, podcasters, and storytellers fascinated by the crossroads of #religionenvironment. Apps due 8/25. Share widely. Details here:Ā https://t.co/5roarJiOnY
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This is the state whose governor bragged that it was number 1 for āmedical freedomā and parental rightsā¦
Pro-death party
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āA society cannot be held together when half of a population has to rely so heavily on the kindness of strangers to do something as basic as work.ā ā ā¦@tressiemcphdā©
nytimes.com
Women pay a greater price for freedom than do men.
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Can we please stop referring to this Supreme Court as "conservative." It's radical. Nothing conservative about it.
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āa fascinating religious development [is] currently underway, one shaped by an understanding that bullets could have prevented the sacrifice at the heart of the Christian faith.ā Great piece by ā¦ā¦@plmanseauā© on Christianity and gun culture.
nytimes.com
God and guns have become strangely intertwined.
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