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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- War of the Worlds: Covid-19 and Pandemic Belligerence
  by Robert Peckham
- Placing the Pandemic in Time: Astrology and Covid-19
  by Omri Elisha
- Covid-19, Ebola, and the Ethnographic Distance
  by Ilmari Käihkö
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Placing the pandemic in time: Astrology and Covid-19
  by Omri Elisha
- Self-inflicted wounds: The Church and dissipation of Christianity in Europe
  by Anna Grzymala-Busse
- Crisis pregnancy centers and sonograms
  by Carly Thomsen
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Africa and the Geopolitics of Covid-19
  by Gilbert M. Khadiagala and Bob Wekesa
- Regimes of Othering: Unpacking the Migration-Security Nexus
  by Margaret Monyani
- Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Tanzania: The Role of Solidarity, National Unity, and Peace
  by Iddy Ramadhani Magoti
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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.