Simon During

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- Strong Interdisciplinarity and Explanatory Pluralism in Social Scientific Research
  by Dimitris Xygalatas
- Departments and Disciplinary Gatekeeping: The Sociolinguistics of Spanish in US Academia
  by José del Valle
- Directions in Sociolinguistics: Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar
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The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others
  by Kathleen Stewart
- On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard
  by Joy Brennan
- Revelations in method
  by Pamela Klassen
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections: A Postscript
  by Ukoha Ukiwo
- The Disappearing Lake
  by Uche Okpara
- Empowering Kenyan Voices in Peacebuilding Discourse Through Talk Radio
  by Joyce Omwoha
Parameters
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- “Is it a bird? Is it a plane?” Rethinking the binary divide between books and journals
  by Chris Harrison
- MaCleKi: Engaging the African public in their history, one story at a time
  by Meshack Owino and J. M. Souther
- Quality assurance under conditions of scale and complexity
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- Building Access in Public Spaces: A Conversation with Aimi Hamraie
  by Michelle Lee
- How to Be Less Stupid About Race: A Conversation with Dr. Crystal Fleming
  by Michelle Lee
- The Long Counterrevolution: United States-Latin America Security Cooperation
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Simon During is a Professorial Fellow at the School of Communication and Culture at the University of Melbourne. His books include Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (2002) and Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations (2012). He is currently working on a book on the idea of the humanities.

Is this all there is

The soft side

Simon During·

November 29, 2017

“Is this all there is?” can have practical meaning, e.g., “I asked for two dozen eggs, and you have only…

Rethinking secularism

Is absolute secularity conceivable?

Simon During·

July 1, 2013

Is absolute secularity conceivable? The question arises from the paradoxical intuition that the secularization thesis is simultaneously both right and…

Secularism: Its Content and Context

Religion and state secularization

Simon During·

February 2, 2012

In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…