The Immanent Frame – Page 58 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound

Piety, publicity, and the paradox of Islamization

Arsalan Khan·

April 30, 2019

The paradox of Islamization . . . has been that in expanding the scope of Islamic authority and making it more broadly available, it also appears to Muslims to have been emptied…

April 30, 2019

Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound

Matthew Engelke·

April 30, 2019

This forum explores a set of interlocking questions concerning how we approach the study of public religion. How and when, above all, is it “public”? What are the conditions and qualities of…

April 30, 2019

Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular

Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others

Kathleen Stewart·

April 19, 2019

In this forum prompted by Emily Ogden’s Credulity, Susan Lepselter’s The Resonance of Unseen Things, Pamela Klassen’s The Story of Radio Mind, and Graham Jones’s Magic’s Reason, the secular becomes a co-constituting…

April 19, 2019

Essays

On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard

Joy Brennan·

April 19, 2019

In religious studies . . . our students learn non-knowing not by thinking their way to it, but by actually not knowing, up to and including a profound unknowing about the conditions…

April 19, 2019

Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular

Revelations in method

Pamela Klassen·

April 12, 2019

Uncanny or rational, spiritual or empirical, the genesis of thinking cannot be pinned down.

April 12, 2019

Essays

Before anything, above all: No decision

Maria José de Abreu·

April 9, 2019

While phrases such as “Brazil first,” “America first,” or “Brexit is Brexit” may suggest a will to restore sovereignty around the logic of positionality—of what stands before and above—they operate in a…

April 9, 2019

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Piety, publicity, and the paradox of Islamization

Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound

Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others

On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard

Revelations in method

Before anything, above all: No decision