Essays & exchanges

The Immanent Frame serves as a forum for ongoing exchanges among leading thinkers across the social sciences and humanities, featuring invited contributions and original essays that have not previously been published in print or online.

To browse our book discussions, visit the TIF book blog.

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Religion and world affairs
*Just and Unjust Peace* Reflections on Philpott’s quest for a universal standard of reconciliation	The politics of religious freedom A discussion of multiple histories and genealogies of religious freedom
Political Theology A discussion on Paul W. Kahn’s latest book	Uprising in Egypt Reflections on the Egyptian revolution
Global Christianity, Global Critique A forum on the Fall 2010 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly	Religious freedom Contending analyses of a controversial facet of U.S. foreign policy
Christian Moderns A discussion of Webb Keane’s 2007 book	Mumbai 11/26 Responses to the terrorist attacks in India
The headscarf controversy The social implications of secularism and political change in Turkey	Islam and the Secular State A discussion of the Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im’s 2008 book
The assasination of Benazir Bhutto Colleagues and scholars reflect on Bhutto’s life and legacy	Deathless Questions Interviews on how we think about the lines between sacred and secular

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Religion in American politics
The politics of spirituality The manifestations of spirituality in contemporary American politics	Reconsidering civil religion Reassessing Robert Bellah’s 1967 thesis of an “American civil religion”
“These things are old” A conversation about Obama, civic virtues, and the common good	The future of marriage Untangling the past and future of the family
Evangelicals & evangelicalisms How people understand and apply a contested religious category	The new evangelicals Evangelicals who have “left the right”
American Grace A discussion of Putnam and Campbell’s 2010 book on American religiosity

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Rethinking secularism
Secularism: Its Content and Context Thoughts on Akeel Bilgrami’s reply to Charles Taylor	Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC Responses on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold “ministerial exception”
Religion in the public sphere The expression and interdiction of religion in the public sphere	Is critique secular? Examining the histories, contexts, and assumptions of critique
Secularity and the liberal arts Reconfiguring the relation between secularism and liberal arts education	*A Secular Age* Critical reflections on Charles Taylor’s 2007 book
*An Atheism that Is Not Humanist* A discussion of Stefanos Geroulanos’s 2010 book	*Justice* A discussion of Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Justice: Rights and Wrongs

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The science of religion
Sex abuse in the Catholic Church How to interpret the sex abuse scandal in the study of religion?	*Religion in Human Evolution* A discussion of Robert Bellah’s 2011 book
The New Metaphysicals A discussion of Courtney Bender’s 2010 book	Toward a new sociology of religion? Reflections on the state and the future of the sub-discipline
A cognitive revolution? Is neuroscience changing the way we think about religion?<