Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada @emoprofessor Twitter profile

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

3 months

Ya girl got tenure!! I’m so proud to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College @kcollege & I’m so grateful to all my brilliant students & kind colleagues for their support 🧡🖤

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

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11 months

I’m leaving earth to permanently live on Playa Saturno with @rauwalejandro

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My dog’s faculty photo

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Today is the official release day of *Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn* from @NYUpress It’s an ethnography about gentrification! masculinities! Catholicism! and most of all, I’m really proud of it. #LifebloodoftheParish

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You’re never too old to dress up as your hero for Halloween @AOC

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*Lifeblood of the Parish* is here! It’s so weird & beautiful to hold my first book in my hands. @NYUpress If you’d like to learn about religion in Brooklyn, Catholic men, & parishes as sites for resisting gentrification & achieving masculinity you should ✨definitely✨ order it

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Many congratulations to @KristyNabhan on the publication of *Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland*, a much anticipated & important book! @UNC_Press

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How it started How it ended

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Putting this out there for everyone working on syllabi! If you are looking for a text on religion and gender, space, embodiment, or ethnography consider *Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn* Bonus! I’d be happy to zoom into your class!

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The proofs for my book *Lifeblood of the Parish* are here! It’s an ethnography about masculinity, money, gentrification, and material culture, centered on a Catholic parish in Brooklyn. Bonus, I took the cover photo from the roof of the church last summer!

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Did I go to campus to film a video of me clapping in my robes for virtual graduation? Yes. Did I also film a video of myself in said robes doing all the Tik Tok challenges I know? Also yes. Don’t let this flop. 😂😂 1/4

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2 years

What would it illuminate to tell the story of Latinx Christianity through the life of one woman? My new chapter “Conversion and Colombianidad in Queens, NY” tells the story of my mother-in-law, Carmenza, to explore migration, conversion & motherhood in the lives of Latinas 🧵

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New headshot, now featuring more ink ✌🏽

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4 years

My article “Men, Tattoos, and Catholic Devotion” just came out in Material Religion! It is about male bonding, tattoos as votives & sacramentals, & the Giglio Feast in Brooklyn. Plus it’s a preview of my book *Lifeblood of the Parish* Full access link 👇🏽

Men, Tattoos, and Catholic Devotion in Brooklyn

This article explores the religious lives of Catholic men in Brooklyn, particularly focusing on their tattoos of saints and Catholic objects. It argues that tattoos are much like devotional objects...

www.tandfonline.com

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I’m so excited to share that I am joining the editorial team at Material Religion @MaterialReligi1 . It’s pretty surreal that I get to help shape the future of my favorite journal.

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In 2003, I co-founded the journal Material Religion, and have served as Managing Editor since then. In 2021, I'll hand things over to @coatesat , along with the new editorial team of @emoprofessor , @sarahedees , and Katja Rakow. It was a tremendous opportunity for me!

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I’m sick of these personal attacks 🤮

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My new course #DevotionalStuff is coming to @kcollege Spring 2021. Each week we will focus on a different kind of “stuff”—Skin. Blood. Bone. Dirt. Milk. Electricity. Wood. Water. Ectoplasm. I’m so pumped, this is my dream class. 💀🩸💉🕯⚰️👻💧⚡️

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#NewProfilePic I’m on leave in the fall and so happy about it ✌🏽

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2 years

The professor is in (office hours) 🍵

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3 years

What does tattooing have to do with Catholic devotion? I spent time with two tattoo artists and wrote about their love of Catholic objects & iconography and the devotional aesthetics of tattoos shops Read “The Enchanted Catholic World of Tattoo Artists”

The Enchanted Catholic World of Tattoo Artists - April Online

An itinerant photographer finds the streets of New York transformed.

www.aprilonline.org

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5 years

Submitted my book manuscript *Lifeblood of the Parish* to @NYUpress & celebrated with my lovely friends, Chinese food, prosecco & (most importantly) surprise LIFEBLOOD balloons!!!

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The professor is in (and serving)! But real talk, it’s so special to get view of myself teaching 🥲 #ThisIsWhatAProfessorLooksLike

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Praying in space! Super cool for thinking about embodiment and how religious practice is adapted to its built & natural (gravity-less) environments!

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Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian astronaut, offering Salah in space.

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4 years

Realizing I need to find time to write about the devotional aesthetics of tattoo shops. #DevotionalStuff Pictured: Black Iris in Brooklyn and Ash & Ivory in Chicago

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3 years

Gearing up for my Winter 2021 classes @kcollege . Religions of Latin America & Religion and Masculinity in the U.S. start on Monday!

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

9 months

That’s a wrap on week 1 of the fall term @kcollege ! Today my classes discussed everything from snake handling and the Shroud of Turin, to Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the Met Gala & the idea of secular relics. Fall 2023 let’s goooooo ☄️

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2 years

I wrote about the role tattoos have historically played in Catholic devotional life for the August issue of @USCatholic . Read about tattoos, sacramentals, and pilgrimages & see how readers responded to a survey about tattoos & devotion!

Tattoos are visible signs of lived faith

Tattoos can be lifelong and durable signs of devotion that help Catholics inhabit their religious identities.

uscatholic.org

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3 years

I’m back at the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. New buildings are going up, the Ferris wheel and rides are in the streets again, and devotional activities are back in full force. A photo thread 🧵

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

4 years

I wrote a piece for @kcollege about how I used Instagram in my online classes to replace slideshows & Moodle posts, & how it allowed students to engage aesthetically+analytically with course materials in ways that felt personal & accessible. Read it here 👉🏽

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3 years

Over the past year I’ve been thinking about church signs as disciplining technologies, silent authorities, and guides on how to pray & give money. Follow along for this #DevotionalStuff thread about how signs enforce and make sacred and covid-safe space @Sacred_Writes 🧵

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@emoprofessor

2 years

So excited that I received the Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the @MarianLibraryUD for my new project “Reinventing the Rosary: Innovation and Catholic Prayer.” 🙏🏽 Can’t wait to explore all the #DevotionalStuff in their collection. Ohio here I come!

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@UDaytonREL

2 years

Congratulations to Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada of Kalamazoo College for receiving the first Marian Library Visiting Scholar Fellowship, and to Liz Hutter of Department of English here at UD for receiving the first Marian Library Resident Scholar Fellowship!

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3 years

I’m in Indianapolis for our first Young Scholars in American Religion meeting with @csraac and I’ve already hit up an antique store so my room is starting to look like a shrine. Can’t stop won’t stop collecting #DevotionalStuff

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@emoprofessor

2 years

I promise tattoos are religiously meaningful & dare I say even powerful channelers of presence and protection My article “Men, Tattoos, and Catholic Devotion in Brooklyn” is free access & a good place to start for considering religious uses of tattoos

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2 years

@JLo turned on the Catholic imagination + Heavenly Bodies vibe in her new movie #MarryMe and I was ~cómo se dice~ VERY INTO IT 🙏🏽

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Scene: me trying to write (1) paragraph on consumer culture in the 1950s 🥲

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Totally fangirling over @mpgPhD today! Her @kcollege talk “Undrinking the Kool-aid” was a masterclass on the problems of “America’s cult consumption obsession” & what we miss & who we dehumanize when we talk about “cults.” Megan is so brilliant + she brings the ENERGY❤️‍🔥

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Scenes from the Joan of Arc parade in New Orleans, 2022

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2 years

So many of us have been eagerly awaiting this book! Congratulations to @BlkNunHistorian on the release of *Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle* from @DukePress

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

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6 months

Excited for the publication of *American Patroness: Marian Shrines & the Making of US Catholicism*! As I say in my blurb: “This is much more than a book on Marian shrines, it is a book that explores Catholic devotion in its radical, conservative, & irreverent registers.”

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5 years

My fall classes @kcollege are going to be dope

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1 year

#NewProfilePic it’s giving the Riddler, it’s giving Poison Ivy 🤑

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3 years

📣Academic job alert: My department at Kalamazoo College is doing a tenure track search in Religions of South Asia. #AcRel

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4 years

New headshot, still emo

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@emoprofessor

2 years

Today I finally celebrated my book #LifebloodoftheParish with my @kcollege colleagues & students. It came out in December 2020, a lonely time to have such a milestone, so it was so beautiful to finally be together 💙 @SohiniPillai

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@emoprofessor

4 years

I had so much fun recording with the brilliant @Classical_Ideas podcast and talking about growing up in New York City & my book Lifeblood of the Parish. Hit that download button & preorder the book with the code LIFEBLOOD30 for 30% off. And subscribe to this awesome pod!

The Classical Ideas Podcast

@Classical_Ideas

4 years

EP 173 w/Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada ( @emoprofessor ) discusses her new book "Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn," coming soon from @NYUpress ! Listen: #Catholic #Brooklyn #Williamsburg #livedreligion

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3 years

For those going to #aarsbl21 in person join @PenaElaineA , @YoCalviYo & I for a book panel on our trio of ethnographies! 📚 “Ethnography, Performance, and Religious and Cultural Identity in the Twenty-First Century” Sunday 12:30-2:30pm

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@emoprofessor

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My heart & brain are so full after our Young Scholars in American Religion meeting @csraac . My new friends are such brilliant and kind teachers & scholars. @PennyEMN @tazeenmali @ansleyquiros @socofthesacred @esj312 @ddhrelprof @maxperrymueller

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It’s no secret many religion scholars buy objects on eBay. In our new @MaterialReligi1 forum “eBay Method and the Study of Religion” we explore eBay’s platform & algorithm, and how desiring & collecting other people’s stuff shapes the study of religion 🧵

eBay Method and the Study of Religion

Published in Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief (Vol. 17, No. 5, 2021)

www.tandfonline.com

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5 years

A very *scholar of Catholics & material culture* shelfie. I want to see what others have on their shelves & other quirky office details!

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2 years

Prof. Corgi advises everyone to do their class readings outside today because it’s feeling like summer in Michigan ✌🏽

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3 years

Went to visit my book #LifebloodoftheParish on the shelves of @bookculture in Morningside Heights. ✨Hope it goes to a good home✨

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Drinking scotch is such a part of Catholic masculinity that my in forthcoming book #LifebloodoftheParish I literally wrote that the book “is about scotch, swords, inked skin, and stacks of money: the adornment and kinetics of the Catholic male body.”

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Pope Francis jokingly said that Scotch Whisky is 'the real holy water'

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My article “Men, Tattoos, and Catholic Devotion in Brooklyn” is ✨open access✨ during #aarsbl21 ! Check it out if you’re interested in masculinity & material culture or if you want to learn about why Catholics get tattoos of saints & devotional objects

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4 years

Can’t wait for the release of *Holy Craft*, a documentary by Filipino filmmaker Joseph Mangat about factory workers who produce Catholic statues & “how they live, work+socialize within the strangeness of manufacturing the sacred.” #DevotionalStuff

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It’s so cool to do book talks with other authors! Today I presented on #LifebloodoftheParish alongside Síle de Cléir, author of *Popular Catholicism in 20th Century Ireland*. So fun to put Brooklyn & Limerick in conversation! Thanks to @Niamh_NicGhabh & the MCHRI for organizing!

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2 years

Revisiting a classic and soaking in the sun ☕️ @RobertOrsi1

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1 year

Last week I had the honor of giving the annual Frederic C. Wood Lecture in Religion @Vassar . Returning to my alma mater and being welcomed by all my mentors in the Religion & Sociology departments and their students was such a beautiful experience 💚

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That warm feeling when mom brings plátanos, pasteles, and alllll the seasonings in her maleta 🇵🇷❤️

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2 years

I’m so excited for the new @MuseumofCityNY exhibit: “City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space,” curated by Azra Dawood @4jjoo ! Join us to celebrate the opening w/ a panel on “Religion, Race, & Urban Space in NYC” on Dec 1st: 🎟️ #UrbanReligion

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2 years

Portrait of a girl nerding out in the archives! I’m so grateful to the University of Dayton’s @MarianLibraryUD for supporting my project “Reinventing the Rosary: Innovation and Catholic Prayer.”

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5 years

Jake Gyllenhaal as American religion books #amrel #acrel

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1 year

I’ve been learning so much at the #ThinkingWithBadBunny Symposium @CentroPR ! I’m on the morning panel on “Bad Bunny & the Politics of Representation” talking about masculinity, style, & aesthetic world building 💜❤️

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@emoprofessor

4 years

*extremely online professor alert* I introduced my Catholics in the Americas Class completely on Instagram Live. #123Catholics Can’t wait to read books by @KristyNabhan & @anthonympetro and thanks to @AmbreLynae for the insta idea!

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4 years

A few weeks ago I asked you all for suggestions of movies with Catholic characters & themes—thanks for collaborating! Here’s the final prompt & film list I’m using in my Catholics in the Americas class. Can’t wait to see what my students come up with! 🎞 🎥

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2 years

I’m so happy to see so many new books about religion in the Midwest! @EdwardECurtisIV ’s *Muslims of the Heartland* from @NYUpress is a beauty! Can’t wait to sit with this one 🌾🏭🍇

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3 years

Have I mentioned how amazing the Religion Department at Kalamazoo College is? @TaylorPetrey @SohiniPillai & Jeff Haus @kcollege

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1 year

It’s the first warm, sunny day in Kalamazoo and I’m getting lost in Carlos Ulises Decena’s beautiful, sensuous writing. @DukePress

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I started at @kcollege four years ago, and my first students are graduating. These religion majors are so kind, curious, and inspiring. We learned this place & grew together. Catch me crying at graduation 🥲✌🏽

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2 years

You can take the girl out of @Vassar , but you can’t take Vassar out of the girl #VCReunion22

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Pilsen appreciation post #UrbanReligion #DevotionalStuff

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The Catholic Studies urge to bring primary sources to the cafe

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My heart is so full 🖤🧡 @kcollege

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2 years

So excited for this conversation about ethnographic methods next week! If you’re a graduate student doing ethnography or interested in doing fieldwork, join us!

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@tressiemcphd Yup! I totally did it better 😂

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You’re never too old to dress up as your hero for Halloween @AOC

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The professor is in (the office on a Saturday) 🤡

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So proud of @ElProfeBarba for the release of his new book *Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California* from @OxUniPress . He is the best kind of scholar: careful, kind, & a beautiful storyteller. Can’t wait to read this cover to cover 💚

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brb searching for a blue suit for @AARWeb

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Anyone need to see a corgi in pool today?

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My Junior Seminar in Religion stack! I played with the syllabus to see what happens if we approach theory+method through the lens of new(ish) books in the field. Featuring @LaurenRKerby @RachelBethGross @AdriaanvKlinken @gottahaveaJOB & favorites by @WinniSullivan & @JLWeisenfeld

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Disfrutando the 116th Street Festival 🇵🇷🥊🐸💃🏻🫶🏽🎶🪘🦎🇵🇷

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@emoprofessor

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I’ve long admired the work @Sacred_Writes does to promote public scholarship and I cannot wait to meet this rad group of scholars! & we get to have @BucarLiz & @mpgPhD as mentors! As they say: ��if you're gonna be smart, why not do it in public?” 📚

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. @emoprofessor is Asst Professor of Religion @kcollege , where she teaches classes on religion and masculinity, Catholics in the Americas, urban religion, and religions of Latin America. She is an ethnographer and her research focuses on material culture, Catholicism, & embodiment

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Today in our Junior Seminar in Religion @kcollege we discussed @WinniSullivan ’s *The Impossibility of Religious Freedom* which centers on a court case about a cemetery. So naturally…we had class in a cemetery! 🪦🪦🪦🪦

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Just your local religion department in a silly goofy mood at commencement 🤪✌🏽 @kcollege @SohiniPillai @TaylorPetrey

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What I want my vibe to be on this Monday morning vs my actual vibe

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A new term means some new additions to my office decor & the Barbie-fication of my #DevotionalStuff 🎀💖

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Catch my talk about Catholic bodies & devotion @VCU tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 5th at 4pm ET! There will be muscles, saints, and lots of #DevotionalStuff

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I’m working on a new book: *Reinventing the Rosary: Innovation and Catholic Prayer*! This summer I was a visiting fellow at @MarianLibraryUD & spent weeks exploring boxes of rosaries & all the #DevotionalStuff . Read about my project & fave archival finds!

Rosary Revelations: The History of Prayer

Visiting scholar Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada used Marian Library materials to reinforce that the history of prayer is one of not just religious practice, but design, media, culture and tradition.

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Another forthcoming religion in the Midwest book 🌽🌾🥩 I am always moved by @KristyNabhan ’s ethnography and I know this study of the religious lives of Iowa meatpacking workers is going to transform how we think about religion, region, & migration

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I spent the sunniest day of the weekend with @hebagowayed ’s new book *Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential* from @PrincetonUPress . I started at the appendix, where she has beautiful reflections on doing ethnography and the mutual respect it requires

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Feeling grateful for my brilliant students & basking in that post-class glow

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4 years

In honor of La Virgen de Guadalupe’s feast day: my favorite books about Guadalupan devotion, written by three amazing ethnographers

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Spending time with @SuppMontgomerie ’s *When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture*. This is a beautifully written book that’s a model for intersecting media studies & religious history @NYUpress

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

3 years

Show & tell is one of my favorite things to do in virtual classes. Today in #DevotionalStuff we talked about the Lourdes pilgrimage and consumer practices & marketing techniques. I brought Lourdes water aromatherapy spray, rosaries, and even a bit of grotto rock!

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

2 years

Reading is bringing me joy today 🪴 Featuring *Queering Black Atlantic Religions* by Roberto Strongman from @DukePress

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

3 years

Congratulations to @brandonbayne on the publication of *Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain* from @FordhamPress

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

3 years

Many congratulations to James Bielo @MaterializingB on the publication of *Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, and Place*. I just started reading it and I’m already underlining everything #MaterialReligion

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

11 months

#Barbie fit check ✌🏽💖

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

2 years

This summer I’m reading books that give me life & help me think about my identity & family history. I’m Puerto Rican & grew up in NYC. Academia & a tenure track job took me far away from the people+place I love A thread on academia, family, & *Olga Dies Dreaming* by @XochitltheG

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Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

@emoprofessor

4 years

“To have a patron saint of the internet is to mark the internet as a Catholic space.” A must-read article by @katherineadugan on the creativity & adaptability of Catholic devotion & what the new patron saint of the internet tells us about young Catholics

Why Gen Z Catholics Want a Patron Saint of the Internet

The popularity of an Italian teenager who died in 2005 and was recently elevated to “blessed” shows how young Catholics want to see themselves in saints.

slate.com

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