The Immanent Frame recently put out a call that invites essays addressing the Covid-19 crisis and its implications in relation to TIF’s thematic focus. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the role of religious ideas, practices, and organizations in responding to the pandemic; changing practices around death, dying, burial, and mourning; understandings of community and isolation or solitude; new technologies for religious worship and sanctuary; anti-Asian racism, antiblackness, and racial justice; corporate response to health emergencies; and digital pedagogy.
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The ethics of gender selection
Womanist theological ethics can help us take into account the complex social considerations, especially religious commitments, that inform gender-selection decision making.
Religion and reproductive science
This forum invites scholars to question narratives of progress, perfection, and triumphant secularism that are threaded through contemporary discussion of modern reproductive practices.
Digital media, religious authority, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Though the ultra-Orthodox case is, of course, particular, it calls attention to how digital media may affect religious communities during the pandemic and our methods for studying them. I explore these possibilities…
On the night of the Notre-Dame fire
Is Christianity still a foundational element of European identity? How could Christian heritage contribute to revive the European project?
Are societies religious? (Or is there a better question?)
As I read Roy, he reserves a place for a religion that is not admixed with other types of things, such as identity, or psychology, or secular law. Mingling or crossing boundaries…