The Immanent Frame – Page 30 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world

The trouble with “true” environmentalism: Religion, nature, and normativity

February 26, 2021

While it is tempting to seek solutions to the environmental crisis through scholarship on religion and the environment, religious studies scholars must be wary of uncritically advancing our own normative ideologies of…

February 26, 2021

Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19

A Witness in our spirits

Paul Anthony Daniels·

February 18, 2021

Considering how Black people in America might go on living and loving life, facing seemingly interminable political impossibility, I want to read Thurman at the junctures where his modernist tendencies for a…

February 18, 2021

Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world

Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal

Anna M. Gade·

February 12, 2021

In the spirit of the critique of categories in the study of religion as protective strategies, I wonder what nature represents as it relates especially to religion and science in our discussion.…

February 12, 2021

Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19

Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion

Kijan Bloomfield·

February 11, 2021

What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack violence, health-care disparities, and the limits on in-person collective mourning to grieve…

February 11, 2021

Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19

The everyday ecology of antiblack religion

Matthew J. Smith·

February 4, 2021

I have been confounded by the similarities between how white Christian reformers understood blackness and how those same assumptions are still used by the state to police Black life today.

February 4, 2021

Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19

Abolition is sacred work

Laura McTighe·

January 28, 2021

White siblings, the work of today is the work of this year is the work of our lifetimes.

January 28, 2021

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The trouble with “true” environmentalism: Religion, nature, and normativity

A Witness in our spirits

Nature as protective strategy: The environment and a new normal

Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion

The everyday ecology of antiblack religion

Abolition is sacred work