The Immanent Frame – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion

This forum offers “Black metaphysical religion” as an analytical historical frame to bring into view the widespread and varied occult interests and mystical orientations of Black communities in the twentieth century.

Matthew Harris·

J. T. Roane·

March 25, 2022

Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place

This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars of state and society to explore the limits and possibilities of burial practices, mourning, and commemoration of the dead in cases where migration and distance have played a significant role, in colonial contexts, and in rapidly shifting sociocultural landscapes.

Saarah Jappie·

Mona Oraby·

August 26, 2021

Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19

This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with antiblackness as white religion.

Ahmad Greene-Hayes·

January 7, 2021

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Melissa Borja·

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For many Hmong refugees, it was a difficult question to answer. Hmong people historically had not organized their lives around the category of religion, which has roots in Protestant Christianity and Western…

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If one aspect of religiosity in America is the belief in America, then scholars of religion would do well to consider the cultural production of those who have been seen as most…

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Refashioning the frames of American religion research

Jerry Park·

May 10, 2023

Centering the study of American religion with a focus on Asian Americans would complicate a number of well-worn framings with which many scholars are familiar.

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Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once

Interrogating caste privilege from within

Himanee Gupta·

May 3, 2023

Through religion, caste engages with ideas rooted in race as well as class and gender to disempower in ways that range from ridicule to exclusion.

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Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once

Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades

Philip Deslippe·

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The conventional wisdom of scholars over the last several decades has held that yoga became popular in America after the liberalization of immigration laws and the rise of countercultural spiritual seekers in…

April 26, 2023

Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once

US Indo-Caribbeans becoming visible through Hinduism

Rupa Pillai·

April 19, 2023

The unique history of Indo-Caribbean migration to the United States allows us to rethink who counts as Asian American and how Asian Americans use religion to belong.

April 19, 2023