Levi McLaughlin – The Immanent Frame

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Levi McLaughlin

Levi McLaughlin is professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor of Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (IEAS Berkeley, 2014) and author of Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawai`i Press, 2019; in Japanese from Kodansha, 2024), as well as numerous book chapters and articles on disaster, religion, politics, and other topics.

Latest posts

Sensing the Social

Science and religion across Senegal and Japan

Robyn d’Avignon·

Levi McLaughlin·

October 12, 2025

Robyn d’Avignon: Levi, the prompt for our conversation suggests that dialogue between science and technology studies (STS) and religious studies has…

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The corporate form

Making persons, cultures, and nations

Levi McLaughlin·

Deonnie Moodie·

May 7, 2021

In this exchange, Levi McLaughlin and Deonnie Moodie discuss person-making, culture-making, and nation-making projects in Japan and India.

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The corporate form

Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good

Levi McLaughlin·

Aike P. Rots·

Jolyon Baraka Thomas·

Chika Watanabe·

April 2, 2021

[In] this essay we briefly elaborate upon the topics we covered in our [JAAR] article to outline promising areas for…

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