The Immanent Frame – Page 95 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Questioning territory: A Jewish reflection on holy land*

June 29, 2017

Thinking of territory as a patrie, a motherland or homeland, makes use of metaphors that hope to capture a primal relationship between territory and citizenship. It is this meeting that founds the…

June 29, 2017

Spirit in the Dark

Spirit in the Dark—An introduction

Josef Sorett·

June 28, 2017

Josef Sorett (Columbia University) introduces a critical exchange centered on his new book, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics.

June 28, 2017

Indigeneity and secularity

Sacrality, secularity, and contested indigeneity

J. Kehaulani Kauanui·

June 23, 2017

Indigenous peoples articulate their indigeneity within the political and legal language of secularism, even as it renders certain claims to indigeneity illegible. In this short essay, J. Kehaulani Kauanui examines the close…

June 23, 2017

Essays

Apologia pro Reza: Why I like Believer

David Frankfurter·

June 20, 2017

I am a comparative historian of early Christianity who reads widely in and engages in academic forums around new religious movements and popular and local religious forms, both contemporary and ancient. I…

June 20, 2017

Essays

Law and truth in the German religious constitution

Ian Hunter·

June 16, 2017

It is a widely held view that the juridical and political management of religion should be grounded in fundamental normative truth. Catholic communitarian and natural law doctrines are among the more evidently…

June 16, 2017

Indigeneity and secularity

The river is not a person: Indigeneity and the sacred in Aotearoa New Zealand

Miranda Johnson·

June 14, 2017

Earlier this year, the New Zealand Parliament passed a remarkable piece of legislation declaring the Whanganui River to be a legal person. This was quickly taken up by global media: “New Zealand…

June 14, 2017

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Questioning territory: A Jewish reflection on holy land*

Spirit in the Dark—An introduction

Sacrality, secularity, and contested indigeneity

Apologia pro Reza: Why I like Believer

Law and truth in the German religious constitution

The river is not a person: Indigeneity and the sacred in Aotearoa New Zealand