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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- Pandemic and Disaster: Insights from Seventy Years of Social Science Disaster Research
  by Kathleen J. Tierney
- Resuming Field Research in Pandemic Times
  by Elisabeth Jean Wood, Douglas Rogers, K. Sivaramakrishnan and Rene Almeling
- Beyond Simply “Lessons Learned”: Pandemic through the Disaster Lens
  by Alexa S. Dietrich and Scott Gabriel Knowles
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Looking imperial universalism in the eye
  by Azeezah Kanji
- Decolonizing universalisms
  by Cemil Aydın
- The Universal Enemy—An introduction
  by Darryl Li
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Between Religious Freedom and the Public Good: Reactions to Religious Restrictions to Prevent the Spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria
  by Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka
- Violence against Women and Girls in the Shadow of Covid-19: Insights from Africa
  by Titilope Ajayi
- Covid-19 and Eritrea’s Response
  by Redie Bereketeab
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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.