Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
South Africa
TIF interview with Jean Comaroff republished in Cultural Anthropology
David Kyuman Kim's conversation with Jean Comaroff for the "Rites and Responsibilities" dialogue series, which originally appeared on this website…
Mamdani on the African uprisings
Mahmood Mamdami places the Egyptian revolution and other protest movements in the historical context of popular struggle in Africa.
More than politics: An interview with Charles Villa-Vicencio
As National Research Director for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Charles Villa-Vicencio was intimately involved in the historic…
Skyping secularism: Religion and democracy
At the end of our last post (an extension of our discussions at the IWM Summer School in Cortona), we…
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
Since our previous dispatch from the IWM Summer School in Cortona, we have settled back into our real lives in…
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
Like many contributors to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I share the sense that Taylor’s account of Latin…
Civil religion of a different kind
Very different from the mode of civil religion that I discussed in my previous post are the experiences of religious…
God was on everybody’s side: A conversation with Jean Comaroff
It is my pleasure to inaugurate Rites and Responsibilities, a new dialogue series for The Immanent Frame and the Social…