The Immanent Frame – Page 8 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

We the People of the Book

Abby Kulisz·

December 20, 2023

In 2004, four US college students were arrested for stealing a book. A rare first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was stored in special collections at Transylvania University in…

December 20, 2023

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

Polarization and world-building

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz·

December 14, 2023

Each of the essays in this forum offers a different theoretical, disciplinary, and intellectual approach to the intersection of anti-Muslim bias and White Christian Nationalism (WCN). All seven essays point to a…

December 14, 2023

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future

Sharmin Sadequee·

December 7, 2023

I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern town right outside of the city of Atlanta in Georgia. This town…

December 7, 2023

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

Keeping the faith: Queer religion as a template for political resistance to white Christian nationalism

R.G. Cravens·

November 30, 2023

“Dear Friend, Militant homosexuals are plotting a dangerously different future for America!” began a 1984 letter from Jerry Falwell, cofounder of the Moral Majority.[i] Falwell, a minister at the Thomas Road Baptist…

November 30, 2023

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy

Najwa Mayer·

November 23, 2023

What if the crowds who attacked the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, were not dominantly white and Christian but rather Black and/or Muslim? Variations of this question appeared across…

November 23, 2023

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees

When does Christian nationalism promote anti-democratic attitudes?

Rosemary Al-Kire·

November 15, 2023

The insurrection on January 6, 2021, ignited widespread concern about the health of democracy in the United States. Alongside this concern, discussions arose about whether Christian nationalism was weakening American democracy. As…

November 15, 2023

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We the People of the Book

Polarization and world-building

Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future

Keeping the faith: Queer religion as a template for political resistance to white Christian nationalism

White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy

When does Christian nationalism promote anti-democratic attitudes?