Check out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2024! This year’s essays were featured in the forums “Ruinations: Violence in these times” and “Experimental books.” Others were standalone essays,...
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The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...a “Racial and Religious Hatred Act.” Two years later, Parliament abolished the common law offense of blasphemy. “Hate speech,” a phrase that dates to the 1980s, had made “blasphemy” redundant,...
Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion

...significance of the question to the academic study and public understanding of secularism and/or religion. Essays that foreground questions that have not received significant coverage on TIF or that suggest innovative approaches...
Call for Applications | Research and Working Group Grants through the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative

...functions: building and diversifying scholarship, strengthening the academic pipeline, and promoting public engagement. Research Grants The Asia Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) Research Grant supports scholarship that advances the...
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
...what seems like the majority of Muslims are preoccupied with pretty mundane questions, that they are quite comfortable with patching, hacking, and reinterpreting texts for new problems, and that there...
Revisited: Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
...Thirty years after apartheid, the utopian vision of a New South Africa—one that is inclusive, democratic, and racially just—remains just as elusive as ever. In 2024, 36.9 percent of South Africa’s...
George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...education, energy, health care. But beyond policy, there will be a vision of America—a moral vision and a view of unity that the pundits often miss. What they miss is...
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
...on the year) in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica, the future prophet endured a childhood of frequent illness that caused him to relocate to Panama, where he eventually gained enough strength...
Objects, trauma, violence, and loss: Telling stories, doing justice
...now is how she described what it is that survivors mourn, what the Holocaust meant to them. She begins with der khurbn, the destruction and devastation that survivors experienced, noting...
When does Christian nationalism promote anti-democratic attitudes?
...recently associated with the ReAwaken America Tour, a far-right Christian nationalist movement that promotes conspiracies ranging from election fraud to QAnon. Other presidential candidates have also used threat-laced Christian nationalist...