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.
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with antiblackness as white religion.
January 7, 2021
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world
The books selected for this forum traverse the fields of environmental studies, Islamic studies, and the philosophy of religion. They invite critical inquiry into the forms of nature entailed in contemporary debates over climate science and its denial, religious naturalism, and the environmental humanities.
November 9, 2020
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Most-Read Essays of 2021
by The EditorsCheck out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2021! These essays are drawn from forums such as “Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19” and “Unveiling the end times: Neoliberalism and apocalypse.” Others are pieces previously published on TIF and updated in light of current developments. Scholars address wide-ranging topics—from how the movement for Black Lives intersects with religion and public health to translation’s place in the academic enterprise. Explore all essays and exchanges from the past year and beyond, including our A Universe of Terms project. Thank you to all of the contributors who wrote for The Immanent Frame in 2021. We look forward to another year of scholarly exchanges!
January 7, 2022
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No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
October 6, 2021
US migration policies are not only intentionally deadly but also are designed to produce ambiguous loss across migrant sending communities. Many bodies are never found, swallowed up by the desert or sea,…
October 6, 2021
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Imperial death and belonging in Alexandria, Egypt
September 30, 2021
Over and again, the stories of Jessie Brown and other foreign nationals of Alexandria demonstrated that death defined the living. It was this bureaucracy and ritualization of death that enabled the imperial…
September 30, 2021
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Facing death alone: Mortuary prospects for the socially solo in Japan
September 23, 2021
In the face of such unsettlement for the dead, there is much anxiety (fuan) around the issue of mortuary care. Yet death has also inspired a booming public and commercial culture these…
September 23, 2021
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Covid-19, death, and repatriation in Southern Africa
September 16, 2021
I argue here that regulations that were set up to prevent the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus have entered into the space of the sacred, with long-term consequences for bereaved communities,…
September 16, 2021
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Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
September 9, 2021
Below I recount [a] story of death and repatriation in times of Covid-19, not in the voyeuristic manner of mainstream media coverage—producing a narrativized fetish of migrant death—but rather as a form…
September 9, 2021
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