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Revisited: Political religion and crises of legitimacy
4 days ago
In 2017, I argued that the concepts of civil and political religions help explain contemporary sociopolitical developments in Russia and the United States.
4 days ago
Karmic historiography
Algorithmic karma in digital samsara Sticky
5 days ago
I stand in line at the grocery store, my jittery trigger-thumb summoning successive apparitions of image, sound, and text that stream incessantly into my downcast eyes. They excite, terrify, amuse, and deaden.…
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Most-Read Essays of 2024

Check out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2024! This year’s essays were featured in the forums “Ruinations: Violence in these times” and “Experimental books.” Others were standalone essays, previously published on TIF but appearing this year with new introductions, or published in 2024 for the first time. Scholars address wide-ranging topics—from thinking critically about the different […]
December 11, 2024
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Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion

The Immanent Frame has been a leading platform for groundbreaking public scholarship on secularism and religion since its founding in 2007. This call invites essays that address US politics and religion, broadly construed, in contemporary or historical perspective. Essays need not address phenomena that occur specifically in the territorial United States. Global and comparative perspectives are […]
November 26, 2024
Essays
They tell the Bible so: On hermeneutical determinism
November 13, 2024
One of the largest religious schisms in American history has occurred in the last few years. Around one quarter of the 30,000 congregations in the United Methodist Church (UMC), the second-largest Protestant denomination in…
November 13, 2024
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Revisited: Jesus, religion, and revolution in the South African elections
October 30, 2024
Ten years ago, I examined the entanglement of religion and politics in South Africa ahead of the 2014 national election. Today, the political landscape has shifted, yet many struggles persist. Thirty years…
October 30, 2024
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