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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- Media Infrastructure Is and Has Always Been a Matter of Life and Death
  by Jacqueline Wernimont
- Mainstreaming Resentment: YouTube Celebrities and the Rhetoric of White Supremacy
  by Cindy Ma
- Constituency as an Independent Source of Power
  by Michelle Oyakawa, Liz McKenna and Hahrie Han
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Extracting corporate religion
  by Judith Ellen Brunton and Richard J. Callahan, Jr.
- The corporate nature of “alternative” practices
  by Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots
- Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good
  by Levi McLaughlin, Aike P. Rots, Jolyon Baraka Thomas and Chika Watanabe
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.