{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 328: Christian Disaffiliation and Exiting w\/Dr. Tess Starman","description":"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\u2019s impact on political attitudes and engagement. We discuss her dissertation, entitled, \u201cA Corrupted Faith: The Role of Power in the Process of Christian Disaffiliation and Rise of the Religious Nones,\u201d 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:  https:\/\/www.sacred-writes.org\/2025-carpenter-cohorts-spring-semester &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"The Classical Ideas Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37361880\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/37361880"}