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Lauren Horn Griffin

Lauren Horn Griffin is a Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. She studies the intersection of religion, technology, media, and national identity. Her research publications includes Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England (2023), which shows how confessional debates played a critical role in the development of national identities. Combining insights from science and technology studies, political science, and media studies, her current project investigates contemporary negotiations of national, post-national, and religious identities in Catholic communities online.

Essays

Social Media Influencers and the Rise of a Platform Catholicism 

What can the Vatican’s meeting of Catholic influencers can tell us about religion in the digital age?