Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

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- “An Assault on Democracy”: The Effects of Voter ID Laws on Immigrant-Serving Organizations
  by Hajar Yazdiha and Blanca A. Ramirez
- Representing Mining Realities: Journalism of the People and Digital Expressions of Democracy on Facebook
  by Adela Zhang
- Inequalities, Pandemic Technologies, and the State in Ecuador
  by Michael D. Hill and Consuelo Fernández-Salvador
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Asking good questions
  by Daniel Lord Smail
- A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
  by Alan Mikhail
- Indigenous refusals and near others
  by Greg Johnson
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Muslim Women’s Marital and Citizenship Rights in Ghana
  by Fulera Issaka-Toure
- Democratic Backsliding in Africa: Understanding the Current Challenges
  by Tope Shola Akinyetun
- Changing Dynamics of Conflict and Peacebuilding Among Farmer-Herder Communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Region
  by Maurice Ogbonnaya
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is a sociocultural anthropologist, scholar of American religion, and documentary filmmaker. Currently, she is the postdoctoral fellow for the Luce-funded Recovering Truth project at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Broadly, her research focuses on social politics, media worlds, race, and religion. Her first book, Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia, will be published with Fordham University Press in 2022.

Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from the 2020 fellows