The Immanent Frame – Page 41 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Is Europe Christian?—An introduction

Olivier Roy·

July 7, 2020

Olivier Roy introduces his argument in Is Europe Christian?, that the real break between contemporary European culture and Christianity is not the Enlightenment (which secularized religion), but the brutal cultural earthquake of…

July 7, 2020

Pandemic, religion, and public life

Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic

Kambiz GhaneaBassiri·

July 2, 2020

The fact that American Muslims have not been singled out during the current pandemic—particularly when viewed in light of the popular uprising in support of the Black Lives Matter movement—suggests that a…

July 2, 2020

The Universal Enemy

Texts, tales, transits: Archival method and the politics of listening

Mezna Qato·

July 1, 2020

[Darryl] Li could not have set out a more difficult methodological task. To write an “ethnographic history from below–one that unfolds across different regions and seeks grounding in local contexts without being…

July 1, 2020

Practices of relation

Practices of relation: Goh and Kaell

Robbie Goh·

Hillary Kaell·

June 26, 2020

This dialogue between scholars Robbie Goh and Hillary Kaell covers the lure of the international, “agglomerative impulses,” and attachments to strangers.

June 26, 2020

Pandemic, religion, and public life

Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19

Bryan Lowe·

June 25, 2020

I am curious about how people turned to the gods historically, the discursive modes permissible for doing so in 2020, and the implications of these shifts.

June 25, 2020

The Universal Enemy

Irredeemable enemies

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou·

June 24, 2020

Representation of the non-Western Islamist fighter has long had to deal with the Eurocentric and asymmetrical nature of international relations. As political challengers to political orders driven by the global circulation of…

June 24, 2020

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Is Europe Christian?—An introduction

Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic

Texts, tales, transits: Archival method and the politics of listening

Practices of relation: Goh and Kaell

Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19

Irredeemable enemies