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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- Disaster Studies as Politics with Other Means: Covid-19 and the Legacies of Cold War Disaster Research
  by Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger
- When Video Vanishes: How Ephemeral Social Media Platforms Disappear Protest Journalism
  by Allissa V. Richardson
- Keeping Time with Melting Rock
  by Alexis Rider
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- The environmentalist’s dilemma
  by Robin Globus Veldman
- Scales of justice for environmental ethics: A reply to Hennessy and Hoesterey
  by Anna M. Gade
- Provincializing the environmental humanities: An Islamic view
  by James Bourk Hoesterey
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- The Covid-19 Pandemic and Nigeria’s Economic Crisis: Between Pain and Reform?
  by Taiwo Owoeye and Azeez Olaniyan
- African Agency and a Biden Administration: Lessons from Trump’s Presidency
  by Ndubuisi Christian Ani
- Covid-19: A Closer Look at Emerging Trends in Africa
  by Oluchi Agbanyim
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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.