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The Immanent Frame

Url:	http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/
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Language:	English
Tags:	history, society, academe
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Who has ‘religion’?

More and more Americans say they have no formal religious affiliation. National surveys, scholarly findings, and media coverage make that clear. Those identifying with “no religion”---often termed ...more

2009-12-15

Colonialism and conflict

If the idea of purification is to retain broad currency across the colonial landscape, it may need to be defined differently, more in terms of separating out truth from falsehood, or the divine fro...more

2009-12-11

Beginning with witness: an interview with Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is Executive Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an organization that stood in opposition to two world wars and helped foster the civil rights movement’s ethic of nonviolence...more

2009-12-08

Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation

In a recent symposium held by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the

2009-12-04

An absence of belief?

The topic I want to pester Professor Keane about is belief. Christian Moderns uses the missionary encounter on the Indonesian island of Sumba to illuminate the contradictions inherent in the modern...more

2009-12-01

Speech and space

Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and related consequences: projects of translation that make religiosity into ...more

2009-11-27

Mumbai revisited

Following the November 26, 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, and in the midst of a flurry of international media coverage, the editors of The Immanent Frame invited several scholars to post their own ...more

2009-11-25

After purification

Christian Moderns stands apart in at least two respects: in method and in conceptualization. Whereas earlier works on liberalism, modernism and secularism mainly employ a historical and critical ap...more

2009-11-23

Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in conversation

In a symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Cha...more

2009-11-20

Christian moderns

I argue that the moral narrative of modernity is a projection onto chronological time of a view of human moral and pragmatic self-transformation. This narrative, and the concrete projects it entail...more

2009-11-19

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