A special project of The Immanent Frame to mark its tenth anniversary. Co-curated by Courtney Bender and Nancy Levene.
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Sovereign Jews: An introduction
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is familiar to readers of The Immanent Frame, to re-problematize the very notion…
On organizing, feelings, and the body
I miss the curiosity we once held for each other in our churches, neighborhoods, and organizations. That curiosity needs to be broadened more than we have ever practiced it before. We must…
Passion and virtue in public life
When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic public life?
The other evangelicals
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork across the country, I witnessed evangelicals engage diverse racial, economic, religious, political, and moral-cultural others in a spirit of flexibility, openness, collaboration, and self-critical reflection and adjustment.
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public life, and in particular how they balance their responsibilities as members of…
Comparison and classification in American religious history
The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and, even more spectacularly, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 reveal the power of the taxonomic and comparative impulses in nineteenth-century America. Imperialism, slavery and segregation, urbanization,…
