Thomas Hale Research

Studying social media interaction on polarizing social/political issues with positions supported by religion/theology

Book chapter proposal accepted


May 04, 2026

 Recently got a chapter proposal approved for an edited collection; my chapter will examine some of the data I collected for my dissertation to see how Michel Foucault’s concepts of governmentality and pastoral power may be illustrated in the data. For those unfamiliar with them, these theoretical constructs refer to ways that both secular and religious authorities create and use norms in ways that can control the behavior of the governed.