This forum responds to a recent call in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and extends earlier TIF discussions on philanthropy,…
Mona Oraby
Mona Oraby is editor of The Immanent Frame and assistant professor of law, jurisprudence, and social thought at Amherst College. Before joining Amherst, she was the Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Law, Society, and Culture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Her research is in law and religion, and focuses on group formation, membership, and belonging. She serves as a steering committee member of the Secularism and Secularity program unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is completing her first book entitled How Will We Know Who We Are? Devotion to the Administrative State.
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…
Creating the Universe
What if we thought differently about the one scholar = total knowledge model? How might scholars advance the academic study…
What are oaths good for?
As American statesmen and a US Supreme Court Justice in the ’90s were figuring out what to do with their…
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Out of time
I entered the Old City the same day that I watched Inferno, bookends of roughly a five-hour span. I could…
The Muslim world: Political fiction and sociological fact?
Big history must reckon with the specificity of human experience, even if such an orientation yields more modest conclusions. The…