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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Vegan Feminist Sociologist, Writer, and Activist

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Tag: Atheism

Vegan Protest is Ritualized, but is it Religious?

Dr. Corey WrennJune 19, 2019June 19, 2019
In my review of For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism in the peer-reviewed journal Social Movement Studies, I consider the appropriateness of author Sarah Pike's argument that religiosity motivates radical anti-speciesism. AlthoughContinue reading
Publications

Atheists and Agnostics Largest ‘Religious’ Demographic in Animal Rights

Dr. Corey WrennJune 18, 2019June 18, 2019
In my publication with Environmental Values, I explore some interesting, if unintended findings from an earlier survey of nearly 300 American vegans I conducted in March of 2017. When asked to report their religious affiliation,Continue reading
Publications

The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 31, 2016January 18, 2019
                  As readers may be aware, I take issue with the abolitionist position on atheism and feminism.  I won't rehash those points here, but given those developments, myself and aContinue reading
Essays

Project Intersect in Bluestockings

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 11, 2016
While visiting New York City this weekend, I stopped into Bluestockings Bookstore and found Project Intersect for sale! I was beyond thrilled that my little essay on atheism in ecofeminist spaces was tucked away in thisContinue reading
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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).

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