Product Description
In October 2007, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) launched The Immanent Frame, a collective blog publishing interdisciplinary perspectives on secularism, religion, and the public sphere. Structured around thematic discussions, The Immanent Frame hosts contributions from leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as from up-and-coming junior scholars. Contributors have included Arjun Appadurai, Talal Asad, Akeel Bilgrami, Robert Bellah, Wendy Brown, Craig Calhoun, José Casanova, Dipesh Chakrabarty, John Esposito, Nilüfer Göle, David Hollinger, Mark Juergensmeyer, Joan Wallach Scott, Charles Taylor, Mark C. Taylor, Michael Warner, and dozens more. Since its inception, The Immanent Frame has featured a variety of scholarly debates, from critical exchanges about Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im's Islam and the Secular State to extensive discussions of the complex role of religion in the public sphere, in American politics, in cognitive science, in debates about sexuality and marriage, and in political and intellectual criticism.
In addition to its ongoing discussion series, The Immanent Frame features: interviews with scholars and public figures; an “off the cuff” forum that invites leading experts to respond to current issues and public controversies related to religion and public life; and “here & there,” a filter blog featuring regularly updated web resources on religion in public life, with excerpts and links to noteworthy research reports, opinion polls, editorials, news analyses and longer online essays, as well as new books and upcoming conferences. As with all of The Immanent Frame’s features, “here & there” serves as a resource for the blog’s readers, as well as an online community among its participants. In these ways and others, The Immanent Frame has pushed the boundaries of the emerging genre of academic blogging, asking how scholars can use web-based platforms to produce and disseminate new knowledge about religion and secularism while forging stronger connections across disciplinary boundaries.
Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.
In addition to its ongoing discussion series, The Immanent Frame features: interviews with scholars and public figures; an “off the cuff” forum that invites leading experts to respond to current issues and public controversies related to religion and public life; and “here & there,” a filter blog featuring regularly updated web resources on religion in public life, with excerpts and links to noteworthy research reports, opinion polls, editorials, news analyses and longer online essays, as well as new books and upcoming conferences. As with all of The Immanent Frame’s features, “here & there” serves as a resource for the blog’s readers, as well as an online community among its participants. In these ways and others, The Immanent Frame has pushed the boundaries of the emerging genre of academic blogging, asking how scholars can use web-based platforms to produce and disseminate new knowledge about religion and secularism while forging stronger connections across disciplinary boundaries.
Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.
