Introduction
The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. Founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere, The Immanent Frame features invited contributions and original essays, and serves as a forum for ongoing exchanges among leading thinkers from the social sciences and humanities.
In 2008, The Immanent Frame was named an official honoree of the 12th annual Webby Awards and a “favorite new religion site, egghead division” by The Revealer. CNN has called The Immanent Frame “exceptionally eye opening.” In September of 2011, The Immanent Frame partnered with Killing the Buddha to launch Frequencies, which was later named an official honoree of the 16th annual Webby Awards. In March of 2013, members of TIF‘s editorial team launched Reverberations, which was selected as a nominee for the 18th annual Webby Awards in 2014.
Contributions to The Immanent Frame are generally new content and by invitation. Writers and thinkers with scholarship relevant to religion, secularism, and the public sphere are welcome to to send us proposals for articles at our email address. We also encourage readers to join discussions by interacting with our social media accounts. Questions regarding editorial policy and terms of use should be directed to the staff.
The work of the SSRC’s Religion and the Public Sphere program and The Immanent Frame is supported through a funding partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation.
The views and opinions expressed in articles published on The Immanent Frame are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Social Science Research Council, unless directly stated otherwise.
Staff
Brook Wilensky-Lanford is editor of The Immanent Frame. She is former managing editor of the twenty-five-year-old literary magazine Killing the Buddha, author of the forthcoming book A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America (June 2026) and Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (2011), both from Grove Press; and Associate Director of Sacred Writes Public Scholarship. Brook holds a PhD in Religion in the Americas from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she lives. To learn more, visit her website: https://brookwilensky-lanford.com/. Additional support for The Immanent Frame is provided by Molly Laas, director of the SSRC’s Religion and the Public Sphere program. Technical support, including web development and design, is provided byZachary Zinn, Director of Technology and Communications at the SSRC.
SSRC would like to thank previous TIF editors Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Mona Oraby, Ruth Braunstein, and Daniel-Steinmetz-Jenkins, and editors-at-large David Kyuman Kim and Steven Barrie-Anthony.
Editorial Board
The editorial board of The Immanent Frame was originally constituted in March 2016. The editorial board works with the TIF staff to develop forum ideas, recruit contributors, and provide editorial feedback to participating authors.
Leah Kalmanson (Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas)
Beatrice Marovich (Theological Studies, Hanover College)
Charles McCrary (Religious Studies, Eckherd College)
Myrna Perez (Classics and Religious Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio University)
Suzanne van Geuns (Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Previous members of the editorial board provided valuable editorial support during their years of service. They include: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (City College of New York), Shahzad Bashir (Aga Khan University), Courtney Bender (Columbia University), Ruth Braunstein (University of Connecticut), Anver Emon (University of Toronto), Mayanthi Fernando (University of California, Santa Cruz), Ahmad Greene-Hayes (Harvard Divinity School), Jonathan Gold (Princeton University), Helena Hansen (University of California, Los Angeles), Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University), Iza Hussin (University of Cambridge), Nancy Levene (Yale University), Laura Levitt (Temple University), Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University),Emily Ogden (English, University of Virginia), Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado, Boulder), Lisa Sideris (University of California, Santa Barbara), Todne Thomas (Yale Divinity School and Yale University), Daniel Vaca (Brown University), and Geneviève Zubrzycki (University of Michigan).
Licensing and Citation
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When referencing posts from The Immanent Frame in scholarly papers and presentations, please ensure that our contributors receive appropriate credit for their ideas and their work. A suggested citation in the Chicago Manual of Style format is below.
Chicago citation
Taylor, Charles. “Buffered and Porous Selves,” The Immanent Frame, September 02, 2008. http://tif.ssrc.org/2008/09/02/buffered-and-porous-selves/.
