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

The corporate form: Conclusion

Kathryn Lofton·

May 28, 2021

The concept of the corporate form is not the solution scholarship needs, but the power of this assertion is the solution scholarship needs. Fighting for collectively informed solutions to collectively created problems…

May 28, 2021

The corporate form

Schools, megachurches, and the corporate form

Heather Mellquist Lehto·

Jolyon Baraka Thomas·

May 21, 2021

This dialogue reflects an ongoing conversation between Heather Mellquist Lehto and Jolyon Baraka Thomas about transnational approaches to critical secularism studies and their shared sense that analyzing political economy is a crucial…

May 21, 2021

The corporate form

Time Incorporated and the Pennsylvania Land Company

Kristen Beales·

Eden Consenstein·

May 14, 2021

Kristen Beales and Eden Consenstein discuss religion, economics, and the corporate form with examples from their research on the Pennsylvania Land Company and Time, Inc., respectively.

May 14, 2021

The corporate form

Making persons, cultures, and nations

Levi McLaughlin·

Deonnie Moodie·

May 7, 2021

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

May 7, 2021

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