Just signed my first academic book contract - with Bloomsbury?! Not free from writing about Satanic Panic just yet..
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake
@bethanjuliet.bsky.social
PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
My new chapter “Save our children from Satanists”: Women, Motherhood, and Satanic Moral Panic” is now out in ‘Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture’ edited by Dr Miranda Corcoran. SO excited to have been included in this amazing collection & can’t wait to read the other papers!!
I’m now a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds for this year!
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...
And first day on site setting up the new exhibition (and curating a cabinet of curiosities) for the museum of the history of science, technology & medicine at the uni
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 🖤
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake@bethanjuliet.bsky.social · last yr.I PASSED MY PHD VIVA!!! Introducing Dr Oake
I PASSED MY PHD VIVA!!! Introducing Dr Oake
Officially reached the deleting all social media phase of the PhD write up. See you in a month once it’s submitted!
Great couple days at the OU Religion & Disinformation workshop. Thanks again to @paulftremlett.bsky.social & @preciouschatd.bsky.social !!
Last year highlight - searching for the demon wisht hounds of wistman’s wood, Dartmoor
Post-PhD job searching (There are no jobs and I’m signing up for paid clinical trials)
Now fighting against time and this growing crack in my laptop screen with 2 months to go for the thesis deadline. Who has hexed me
The pub psychic night project is at AAR!! Caroline Starkey ( @carostarkey.bsky.social ) & Josh Bullock. (So happy to have been able to be a research assistant on this exciting project!) #SBLAAR2024
Longest flight ever but made it to San Diego for AAR this weekend!! (Went to sleep at 6pm and about to nap again because what even is time right now)
Time for the highlight of every US conference - having to explain to American CBP that I’ve come here to talk about the Devil
VERY early stages of a NRM/minority religions (and various issues/typologies which can fall under this) starter pack while more of us join this platform. If you want to be included, message me! go.bsky.app/RgcuxhC
To celebrate 10k followers, I decided I would seize the opportunity to use my platform for something good. Women VS Disinfo! A huge selection of expert researchers, fact checkers, journalists, debunkers, science communicators, academics, vloggers, etc. of all things Disinfo go.bsky.app/FFCjgks
Had the opportunity to see one of the earliest editions of the Malleus Maleficarum (‘hammer of witches’). This copy is from 1494 (original 1486) & the annotations probably 16th century. Held in University of Leeds special collections archives at the moment!
Heading to San Diego this week for #SBLAAR2024! I’ll be presenting at the religion media & culture unit panel on Sunday talking about digital ethnography & (as always) Satan
Finally gave up on the other place and moving stuff over to here so hi! I’m Bethan, I’m a PhD researcher in satanic moral panic(s) - past and present but mostly contemporary stuff - in the last few months of finishing my thesis. Interested in all things folklore/myth/occult & history of moral panics