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

Extracting corporate religion

Judith Ellen Brunton·

Richard J. Callahan, Jr.·

3 days ago

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,…

3 days ago

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

The corporate form

Vaughn A. Booker·

Mona Oraby·

Nathan Schneider·

April 2, 2021

This forum responds to a recent call in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and extends earlier TIF discussions on philanthropy, economy, and corporation. The journal article excited us and struck as something…

April 2, 2021

Unveiling the end times: Neoliberalism and apocalypse

The coloniality of apocalypse

Catherine Keller·

Mayra Rivera·

March 31, 2021

In this piece, Catherine Keller and Mayra Rivera reflect on "the end of the world," "climate apocalypse," and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

March 31, 2021

Unveiling the end times: Neoliberalism and apocalypse

Apocalypse when? Andean world-turnings in an era of neoliberalism, and after

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld·

Taylor C. Nelms·

March 24, 2021

Anthropologists Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Taylor C. Nelms set their discussion of neoliberalism and apocalypse in Ecuador during the turn of the millennium.

March 24, 2021