Tracy Fessenden

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- Becoming Institutionalized: Incarceration and “Slow Death”
  by Johanna Crane
- From Asian Exclusion to Today’s Migrant Crisis: The Gendered Dynamics of Immigration Policy
  by Catherine Lee
- Sociolinguistic Evaluations of Inequality
  by John Baugh
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Constituting religion, contesting constitutional identity
  by Jaclyn L. Neo
- Judges, lawyers, politics: Religion still divides Malaysia
  by Shanmuga Kanesalingam
- Conversion and demographic anxieties
  by Kristen Stilt
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Notes on Uganda’s “Refugee Paradise”
  by Yusuf K. Serunkuma
- Securing Peace and Stability in Africa: An Interview with Dr. Chukwuemeka Eze
  by African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences
- Rural Banditry in Zamfara state, Northwest Nigeria
  by Samaila Suleiman
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Tracy Fessenden is the Steve and Margaret Forster Professor and interim Director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature (Princeton UP, 2007) and Religion Around Billie Holiday (Penn State UP, 2018).