EP 328: Christian Disaffiliation and Exiting w/Dr. Tess Starman

Tess Starman (she/they) is a recent PhD graduate in Sociology at Howard University and is an incoming assistant professor at Simpson College. Her research specializes on intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and power at the nexus of religion and politics. She studies progressive Christian attitudes, religious exiting, and religion's impact on political attitudes and engagement. We discuss her dissertation, entitled, "A Corrupted Faith: The Role of Power in the Process of Christian Disaffiliation and Rise of the Religious Nones," which examines the religious exiting process and non-religious identity formation of ex-Christians. You can find her work at tessstarman.com . Visit Sacred Writes:

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EP 328: Christian Disaffiliation and Exiting w/Dr. Tess Starman is an episode from The Classical Ideas Podcast by Gregory Soden.

This episode is 38:58 long.

This episode was published on Jul 16, 2025.

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