The Immanent Frame is pleased to announce a few changes to its editorial board, which was first constituted in March 2016 and continues to work alongside Editor Mona Oraby and Editorial Associate Olivia Whitener to bring content to the site. Continue reading for information on the three newly appointed members and a thank you for the former editorial board members whose terms have ended in 2020.
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The pandemic and new Muslim publics
Where Singapore’s Malay-Muslim community has traditionally conceptualized notions of togetherness through the public commemoration of personal events, the hasty digitalization of these events is bringing “new Muslim publics” into community life in…
Experience between the secular and the divine: Conclusion
Why have religious philosophers and theologians been drawn to phenomenology in particular? The essays in this forum suggest several answers to this question.
Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World
by
Heidi Campbell
What would religiosity look like if social distancing became the “new normal”? Would expressions of faith need to become increasingly technologically mediated to protect the vulnerable? Would religious leaders accept this shift and willingly adapt? The result of these questions and conversations with other scholars of religion online is now published as an eBook called Religion in Quarantine: The Future of Religion in a Post-Pandemic World. To create this book, Texas A&M University Religious Studies faculty and students explored the shifts in religious practice within Jewish, Muslim, and Christian contexts, primarily within the first three and a half months of the pandemic. By combining reflections from our spiritual journeys in our respective religious communities, along with research on how the pandemic affected the way we investigate religion both in current times and how we will in the future, a number of common themes emerged. This eBook reports eight lessons drawn from this research.
“. . . by law established”: A transatlantic dialogue
One aspect of recent developments in the religious clause jurisprudence you describe leaves me puzzled, and I wonder if you could offer some more reflections upon it? The doctrinal instability within the…
Law, love, phenomenology: Levinas between Lyotard and Marion
In the 1990s, Dominique Janicaud denounced authors such as Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion for engineering a "theological turn" in phenomenology. They had, he thought, caused phenomenology to veer off course. They…












