The Immanent Frame – Page 31 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea

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

The corporate form

Extracting corporate religion

Judith Ellen Brunton·

Richard J. Callahan, Jr.·

April 16, 2021

In this conversation, Judith Ellen Brunton and Chip Callahan discuss "occupational religion" as it relates to their research on the oil industry in Alberta, coal mining in eastern Kentucky, nineteenth-century whaling industry,…

April 16, 2021

The corporate form

The corporate nature of “alternative” practices

Ioannis Gaitanidis·

Aike P. Rots·

April 9, 2021

Ioannis Gaitanidis and Aike P. Rots, scholars of contemporary Asian religion, discuss commercial spirituality and corporate myth-making with examples from Japanese religious and economic life.

April 9, 2021

The corporate form

Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good

Levi McLaughlin·

Aike P. Rots·

Jolyon Baraka Thomas·

Chika Watanabe·

April 2, 2021

[In] this essay we briefly elaborate upon the topics we covered in our [JAAR] article to outline promising areas for further research on the corporate form. Here, we consider three topics that…

April 2, 2021

The corporate form

Vaughn A. Booker·

Mona Oraby·

Nathan Schneider·

April 2, 2021

This forum responds to a recent call in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and extends earlier TIF discussions on philanthropy, economy, and corporation.

April 2, 2021

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Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea

Corporate missions: Commerce, freedom, and the public good

Extracting corporate religion

The corporate nature of “alternative” practices

Investigating the corporate form in practice: Heterarchy, hitozukuri, Hello Kitty, and the public good

The corporate form