The Immanent Frame – Page 2 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Revisited: Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections

October 30, 2024

Ten years ago, I examined the entanglement of religion and politics in South Africa ahead of the 2014 national election. Today, the political landscape has shifted, yet many struggles persist. Thirty years…

October 30, 2024

Essays

Revisited: Making budgets moral again

Ruth Braunstein·

October 16, 2024

Ruth Braunstein revisits her 2019 essay on efforts to reframe the budget as a moral concern. Her work sheds light on an active, if fragmented, network of faith leaders who reject the…

October 16, 2024

Ruinations: Violence in these times

Thinking about the discourse of “religion and violence”

William Cavanaugh·

October 9, 2024

I have learned much from this fascinating collection of short essays. Here we find on-the-ground engagements with violence in Gaza, Christian nationalism, mass shooters in the United States, tensions between Christians and…

October 9, 2024

Ruinations: Violence in these times

Mughal neopaganism and the romance of history

Azfar Moin·

October 2, 2024

In the last five decades, South Asian countries have experienced a notable increase in religious violence and discrimination. The most well-known cases involve the Muslims in India, the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan, the…

October 2, 2024

Ruinations: Violence in these times

Rabid for a peace

Suzanne van Geuns·

September 25, 2024

“To have or not have sex,” writes R. Marie Griffith, “is a vital symbolic and discursive arena for [enacting] the relationship between body and soul.” For incels or involuntary celibate men, who mark their sexlessness…

September 25, 2024

Ruinations: Violence in these times

When mercy doesn’t season justice: Rights versus humanitarian relief

Arzoo Osanloo·

September 18, 2024

Contemporary calls for relief, aid, or charity span numerous domains of care and increasingly exist in the absence of a rights-based model of justice, not as a complement to it. This troubling…

September 18, 2024

Latest posts

Revisited: Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections

Revisited: Making budgets moral again

Thinking about the discourse of “religion and violence”

Mughal neopaganism and the romance of history

Rabid for a peace

When mercy doesn’t season justice: Rights versus humanitarian relief