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

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

Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world

The books selected for this forum traverse the fields of environmental studies, Islamic studies, and the philosophy of religion. They invite critical inquiry into the forms of nature entailed in contemporary debates over climate science and its denial, religious naturalism, and the environmental humanities.

Lisa H. Sideris·

November 9, 2020

Church State Corporation

Church State Corporation—An introduction

Following this introduction, five dialogues will be published in which Sullivan was paired with another scholar to discuss Church State Corporation.

Mona Oraby·

September 28, 2020

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The corporate form

Making persons, cultures, and nations

Levi McLaughlin·

Deonnie Moodie·

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In this exchange, Levi McLaughlin and Deonnie Moodie discuss person-making, culture-making, and nation-making projects in Japan and India.

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The corporate form

Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea

Mary-Jane Rubenstein·

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie·

April 30, 2021

In this conversation, Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Jenna Supp-Montgomerie discuss their interests in the NewSpace Race and seasteading, two endeavors that "beckon to enterprising neocolonialists with untapped resources and ungoverned space," as Supp-Montgomerie…

April 30, 2021

The corporate form

Corporate missions: Commerce, freedom, and the public good

Timothy Rainey·

Chad E. Seales·

April 23, 2021

In this conversation, Chad Seales and Timothy Rainey address what role corporations should assume in achieving the public good. While discussing matters of trust, control, philanthropy, colonial capitalism, humanitarianism, commodification, artificial personhood,…

April 23, 2021

The corporate form

Extracting corporate religion

Judith Ellen Brunton·

Richard J. Callahan, Jr.·

April 16, 2021

In this conversation, Judith Ellen Brunton and Chip Callahan discuss "occupational religion" as it relates to their research on the oil industry in Alberta, coal mining in eastern Kentucky, nineteenth-century whaling industry,…

April 16, 2021

The corporate form

The corporate nature of “alternative” practices

Ioannis Gaitanidis·

Aike P. Rots·

April 9, 2021

Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots, scholars of contemporary Asian religion, discuss commercial spirituality and corporate myth-making with examples from Japanese religious and economic life.

April 9, 2021

The corporate form

Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good

Levi McLaughlin·

Aike P. Rots·

Jolyon Baraka Thomas·

Chika Watanabe·

April 2, 2021

[In] this essay we briefly elaborate upon the topics we covered in our [JAAR] article to outline promising areas for further research on the corporate form. Here, we consider three topics that…

April 2, 2021