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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- What Kids Can Do: Paying Attention to Children’s Capacities in the Pandemic
  by Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill
- Deciphering Water, Stone, and Movement
  by Andrea Ballestero
- Praxes of Care: The Politics of “Intravention” in the Age of Covid-19
  by Jih-Fei Cheng and Claudia Sofía Garriga-López
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- The just shall live by faith: Living without metaphysical guarantee in an antiblack world
  by Calvin Warren
- Neoliberalism and ambient apocalypse
  by Courtney Bender and Todne Thomas
- The trouble with “true” environmentalism: Religion, nature, and normativity
  by Amanda J. Baugh
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- The Impact of Covid-19 on Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
  by Sherihan Radi
- Kenya-US Relations under Joe Biden’s Presidency: Prospects and Challenges
  by Linnet Hamasi
- ‘Electocracy’ Writ Large: Is Political Imagination under the Spell of Electoral Fundamentalism in Uganda?
  by David Ngendo-Tshimba
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Special Projects

A Universe of Terms

This project began in November 2019, publishing multiple original responses on distinct terms related to the study of religion and secularism.

Is this all there is

A special project of The Immanent Frame to mark its tenth anniversary. Co-curated by Courtney Bender and Nancy Levene and published in 2017-2018.

Reverberations

A digital forum on prayer, with unique contributions published from 2013-2015 as part of the New Directions in the Study of Prayer initiative of the SSRC’s Program on Religion and the Public Sphere.

Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality

Frequencies seeks to commence a genealogy of spirituality and published unique entries and artwork from 2011-2012 as part of the SSRC’s Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life project.