Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Dr Aled Thomas
@aledjllthomas.bsky.social
Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of Leeds. New/minority religions. Socialist. I love cats, coffee, and off-kilter pop music. He/him. 🖖
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
It's with profound sadness that I write that my father, Vernon, passed away on Tuesday; he was 62. We were fortunate to spend his last few days in his company - reminiscing and playing his favourite Queen records. He knew that he was loved by us all. I'll always be proud to be Vernon Thomas' son.
I am heading to #IAHR in Krakow today! I started a google map for vegan friendly spots in Krakow (I have a few more spots to verify and add): www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/e... in case it is helpful for anyone!
Krakow - IAHR - Google My Maps
Dining and meetup ideas for IAHR, focused on vegan friendly options and outdoor or open air spaces.
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It's official! We have confirmed a date for the book launch! Wednesday 5th November 2.30pm at OCHS, Oxford. Who's coming? 😃🙋♀️ @ruthwestoby.bsky.social @jimmallinson.bsky.social @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @wedossett@bsky.social @philipdeslippe.bsky.social @aledjllthomas.bsky.social
The programme for our online conference is now live! #BASR2025 basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b...
BASR Annual Conference 2025
Religion, Space and Place Friday 5th September, 2025. Online, hosted by the Open University. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: Click Here The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR confe…
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For those attending the upcoming IAHR congress, we are delighted to share details of the INFORM panel which will feature at the event! We're very excited to present on these insightful topics and to showcase the importance of INFORM's work, and we hope to see some of you in attendance!🗺️📚
Paper ready for next month's #IAHR World Congress. Looking forward to being part of the @informreligion.bsky.social panel!
I finally watched Conclave. I like that Ralph Fiennes has the same energy as Kermit the Frog trying to keep The Muppet Show from going off the rails.
My PhD thesis ‘The satanic cult conspiracy: how online conspiracy theory discourses construct moral panic’ is now up on WREO: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
"An island of strangers" is a racist thing to say. What makes them more 'strange' than anyone else I don't know, Starmer?
Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · last yr.Keir Starmer says immigration system is “almost designed to permit abuse” and that it risks “pulling the country apart”. PM says UK needs tougher rules to reduce immigration significantly or it risks becoming “an island of strangers”.
The ways some will defend the Stanford Prison Experiment's lack of ethical integrity simply because it fits their agenda honestly beggars belief.
Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?
Congratulations to Bethan on an excellent thesis and viva performance! Well earned! 🎓
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake@bethanjuliet.bsky.social · last yr.Big thank you to my examiners Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social & David Robertson @davidgrobertson.bsky.social ! And my amazing supervisors Caroline Starkey @carostarkey.bsky.social , Mike Finn & Mel Prideaux 🖤
As is our usual custom in an IAHR year, we will be running our annual conference for 2025 over a single day. This year we have also chosen to run the conference online, in the hope of widening participation. The theme will be Religion, Space, and Place. #basr2025 basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b...
BASR Annual Conference 2025
Religion, Space and Place Friday 5th September, 2025. Online, hosted by the Open University. The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR conference in Krakow this year and we hope t…
basr.ac.uk
The latest issue of our journal, JBASR, on the theme of Environmental Endings and Religious Futures has just been published, with a lead article by Catherine Wessinger @thebasr.bsky.social www.jbasr.com/ojs/index.ph...
Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR)
Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religious
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*BOOKING NOW OPEN* Booking for the forthcoming INFORM seminar is officially open! For details on how to secure your place visit the linktree in our bio!🔗 Information regarding speakers TBC soon. We hope to see you there!📅
You can’t invoke Thatcher in 2025, that’s bananas. That’s wacky if you’re a Tory, let alone Labour. Look what she’s done. Look at the fucking state of everything. At one point she said Blair was her greatest creation. It’s not true anymore, her greatest creation is now Starmer.
The BASR is now on Bluesky!
BASR (British Association for the Study of Religons)@thebasr.bsky.social · 2y agoThe British Association for the Study of Religions is now on Bluesky! 🦋 Stay tuned for more updates on our conferences, projects, bulletin and academic journal. All available here: www.basr.ac.uk
The British Association for the Study of Religions is now on Bluesky! 🦋 Stay tuned for more updates on our conferences, projects, bulletin and academic journal. All available here: www.basr.ac.uk
Lammy praises Trump’s “incredible grace & generosity” on #BBCR4today. His earlier verdict was more accurate (“dishonest, xenophobic”). A man who made “criminal efforts” to overturn 2020 election result, who will trash climate & nature & threaten minorities. Solidarity with all who feel fear today
Our panel for the IAHR conference has been accepted! Who will I be seeing there? I've not visited Karków before, so I'm rather excited. 🥳
Saw Nosferatu last night (it's great), and I think Willem Dafoe has become cinema's go-to 'weird old expert ostracised from his field for being weird' guy. He does it very well though, so I'm not complaining.
At the Community Religions Project day - celebrating its work and its future! Mel Prideaux is kicking things off.
On my way home after yesterday's Inform seminar on New Religiosity on Campus. A great event of diverse papers and talks! @informreligion.bsky.social
