Author of _Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, & Worlds without End_, out in Spring 2022 with Fordham University Press.
Joined June 2007
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20 Jan 2022
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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13 Jun 2025
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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
13 Feb 2025
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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8 Sep 2024
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
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8 Sep 2024
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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8 Sep 2024
There is an incredible amount of excellent work being done in Brazil, and I'm pleased that my co-editors and I had a small role in making sure that it can be a part of the wider anthropological conversation.
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19 Aug 2024
"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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
31 May 2024
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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1 Mar 2024
nice forum on andreas bandak's _exemplary life: modelling sainthood in christian syria_ berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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9 Dec 2023
🚨 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
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13 Oct 2023
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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
10 Sep 2023
I wrote a thing about the various ways Mormons have interpreted UFOs.
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7 Sep 2023
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…
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7 Sep 2023
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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
5 Sep 2023
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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
25 Aug 2023
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
30 May 2023
🚨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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
19 Jul 2023
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…
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3 Jul 2023
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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
29 Apr 2023
This Thursday at 6:30! Join us online for a conversation on Black faith with @todnethomas, @MelissaFordPhD, and Su'ad Abdul Khabeer.
28 Apr 2023
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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Jon Bialecki retweeted
18 Apr 2023
✨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.”
✨ 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
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