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Daniel Winchester

@bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social

Sociologist with interests in religion, social theory, culture, and ethnography. Enthusiastic about beer, bikes, and books. A list of my knowledge widgets, courtesy of Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yjxtzarj

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Daniel Winchester@bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · last wk.

'Davis, the government says, has attended/facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his “anti-authoritarian” ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents. He is facing six years in prison.'

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

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Daniel Winchester@bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 4w ago

IT'S ALIVE! Brainstorming, discussing, writing, and re-writing this piece on the "unbundling" of American religion with @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, and @bsteens.bsky.social was the most enjoyable part of the process, but it's gratifying to see it officially "out" in ASR.

Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion - Ruth Braunstein, Jaime Kucinskas, Brian Steensland, Daniel Winchester, 2026

Much recent sociological work on religion in the United States is written outside the field’s two established paradigms: secularization theory and the 1990s “re...

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Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Jaime Lee Kucinskas@jlkucinskas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Check out this article from @landonschnabel.bsky.social, Ilana Horowitz & @contexts.org on DIY Faith, especially among young & LGBTQ+ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Great w/our forthcoming article @ Am Soc Rev on the Unbundling of Religion: osf.io/preprints/so... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social

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Daniel Winchester@bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wow. A very long and genuinely insightful thread about democracy, information environment, and institutional trust. Good stuff...but also too functionalist in perspective. I don't think everything can be reduced to political economy, but contemporary capitalism plays a helluva role in this story.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My Tax Dollars author @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social speaks with @nytimes.com. Check out @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social's full piece on tax resistance here:

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

Tax resistance has long been woven into America’s fabric. Some filers have refused to pay over the decades — or at least are inquiring about their options today — as they struggle to pay their federal income taxes in good conscience.

Daniel Winchester@bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out this OPEN ACCESS pub by my on-the-job-market PhD advisee, @akotanko.bsky.social. This is the article version of Adam's excellent master's thesis and the seed of inspiration for his even more excellent dissertation project on what he's termed "moral ambassadorship".

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World@sociusjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What's the collective in this #collectiveaction? A. Kotanko’s (@akotanko.bsky.social) #Socius study of an #immigration clinic demonstrates how #socialmovement organizations draw on #personalidentity to encourage collective action participation. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

The Indiana Citizen@indianacitizen.org · 9mo ago

Indiana University has reversed course on its decision to end print publication of the Indiana Daily Student, its award-winning student newspaper, after two weeks of intensive blowback, including accusations of censorship and canceled alumni... indianacitizen.org/temporary-re... #HoosierSky #edchat

‘TEMPORARY REPRIEVE’? IU reverses course and will print student paper, but distrust remains - THE INDIANA CITIZEN

By Steven Hinnefeld The Indiana Citizen October 31, 2025 Indiana University has reversed course on its decision to end print publication of the Indiana Daily Student, its award-winning student…

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Qualitative Sociology@qualsoc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In our newest issue, Adam Kotanko @akotanko.bsky.social and Dan Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social explore how groups respond to accusation of scandal through an analysis of evangelical Protestants’ statements of American missionary John Chau. Read it here link.springer.com/article/10.1....

Making a Martyr?: Scandal, Symbolic Power, and the Controversial Death of Evangelical Missionary John Chau - Qualitative Sociology

How do groups respond to accusations of scandal? Because scandals pose significant risks of moral stigma and loss of status to those associated with them, sociologists have analyzed how actors within an accused community use strategies like denial, scapegoating, public apologies, etc. to manage the general public’s response to and interpretation of scandalous claims. While this focus on groups’ “external” responses to scandal has been productive, limited scholarship examines how actors also seek to interpretively manage scandals “internally,” among fellow members of their communities. Through an analysis of evangelical Protestants’ public statements concerning John Chau, an American missionary who garnered international media attention and public controversy after being killed by an isolated tribal group whom he sought to evangelize, we demonstrate how representatives of two factions of the American evangelical field—conservative and progressive, respectively—leveraged scandal as an opportunity to promote their respective visions of ‘authentic evangelicalism” to their broader evangelical audience. More specifically, our findings demonstrate how these spokespersons converted scandalizing accusations made against Chau and American evangelicalism into symbolic resources for solidifying or transforming the professed values and collective identities of their co-religionists. Ultimately, our study demonstrates how scandals not only reveal and potentially reconfigure moral boundaries and conflicts between accusers and accused—as previous sociological research has shown—but that scandals may also involve field-level conflict and contestation among the morally accused themselves, creating opportunities for actors to (re)shape their contemporaries’ moral certainties and collective self-understandings.

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