People who work with Buddhist texts and philosophies know that the Buddha said, “It is volition (cetanā) that I call…
The karma of not caring
politics
Twin dangers: Assumed consensus and false consciousness
The idea of “karmic historiography” is new to me. Karma at minimum means that sentient beings are in some way…
Karmic historiography
A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationships—especially those…
Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion
The Immanent Frame has been a leading platform for groundbreaking public scholarship on secularism and religion since its founding in 2007. …
Revisited: Underestimating the force of the New Evangelicals in the public sphere
Undoubtedly, transnational pulls and uneven relations of power shape political realities throughout the Americas. However, not all political and cultural…
Religion, democracy, and Christian nationalism
The intersection of religion and politics has been a key focus of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Program on…
Us and them vs. them: How Christian nationalism facilitates multiracial coalitions of exclusion
The rise of ethno-nationalist movements around the world has been one of the most notable political trends of the past…
Everything Everywhere All at Once as religious experience
If one aspect of religiosity in America is the belief in America, then scholars of religion would do well to…
US politics beyond white conservatives: Asian American evangelicals and the religiously unaffiliated
A focus on Asian Americans opens new avenues of study when it comes to race, religion, and politics. I focus…
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
“Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once” invites readers to the multiverse of religious experiences in Asian America. This set…