The Immanent Frame – Page 27 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion

Tuning the religio-racial mind

March 25, 2022

The religio-racial metaphysical imagination, however varied, was particular to the conditions of Black people. The goal was to detach them from the false belief that Negro Christian identity was appropriate and propel…

March 25, 2022

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows

Political life after death: Racial violence in North Carolina

Mohamad Jarada·

March 11, 2022

In recent years, the political and social activity of racialized Muslim American communities is transforming alongside the widening powers of law enforcement agencies and the carceral technologies that undergird their agendas.

March 11, 2022

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows

Abolition and the stock market

Esra Tunc·

March 4, 2022

The abolitionist movement is primarily a response to the prison industrial complex, but it speaks to issues beyond punishment and imprisonment, providing a powerful resource for thinking about social worlds based on…

March 4, 2022

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows

The ethic of discipleship in East Harlem

Casey Bohlen·

February 25, 2022

In 1948, three Union seminarians hatched the idea for one such program: an experimental urban ministry, dubbed the East Harlem Protestant Parish (EHPP). One was a Black Baptist. The other two were…

February 25, 2022

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows

Religious publicity and transnational minority politics

Candace Lukasik·

February 18, 2022

Building on earlier work, I show here that transnational Coptic Christians are remapping indigenous narratives of persecution and martyrdom in Egypt to fight for “traditional [Christian] values” in the United States. As…

February 18, 2022

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows

On parable, truth, and true and false reconciliation

Joe Bartzel·

February 11, 2022

Scholars across multiple disciplines have offered a variety of accounts of reconciliation—what reconciliation is, under what conditions it should be sought, why it is valuable, and how it can be achieved. I…

February 11, 2022