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	<title>The Immanent Frame</title>
	
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	<description>Secularism, religion, and the public sphere</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>All things here &amp; there</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/465279963/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Duane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a title="picture and mittens by dorywithserifs at Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorywithserifs/58267671/" target="_blank"><img class="alignright alignnone size-full wp-image-915" style="float: right;" src="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/here.jpg" alt="&#60;p&#62;&#60;/p&#62;" height="100" /></a>We've put together a selection of recent highlights from <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/category/here-there/">here &#38; there</a>, The Immanent Frame's regular roundup of perspectives on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.]]></description>
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		<title>Secularism and press freedom</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/460071373/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/20/secularism-and-press-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Webb Keane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking secularism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Secularism plays a crucial role in a certain moral narrative of modernity.  This narrative tells a story of the liberation that is supposed to have emerged as people came to realize that the agency they had imputed to false gods, or to gods altogether, in fact belonged to them.  Some familiar variations on the basic story date back at least to the 18<sup>th</sup> century.  Perhaps less often noted is the semiotic ideology it tends to presuppose (for details, see my book <em><a title="University of California Press, 2007" href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10512.php" target="_blank">Christian Moderns</a></em>).  A glance back at the debates that ensued after the notorious affair of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad may help illuminate how this semiotic ideology is associated with secularism.  It may also shed light on how that ideology helps sustain the common sense of secularism and its ties to ideas of freedom in general, and of the press and its publics more specifically. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case of religious environmentalism</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/455991776/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/17/the-case-of-religious-environmentalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Gottlieb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking secularism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to the resurgence of aggressive, intolerant and even violent religious fundamentalism of recent decades, deep questions, often answered in the negative, have been raised about the place of religion in public life. Religion is often experienced and described as antithetical to public order, democracy, and progressive values. However, the example of religious environmentalism shows (once again) that religion in and of itself has no particular political identity---it is neither left nor right, democratic nor undemocratic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The blame game</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/452963151/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/14/the-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Cadge</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The future of marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How did the same people who elected Barack Obama President last Tuesday vote to pass Proposition 8 in California, the state ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage? My liberal friends in Massachusetts and across the country are organizing protests and hanging their heads. "We expected more from California," they mutter under their breath.]]></description>
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		<title>The justice we need</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/451736132/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/13/the-justice-we-need/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John D. Carlson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 election provides a significant occasion to rethink our assumptions about justice and politics---concepts we rarely link together, least of all during presidential campaigns and elections. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cooling embers</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/449553351/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/11/the-cooling-embers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Bivins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politics is not reducible to elections, of course. Yet these contests---particularly the quadrennial spectacle that is a Presidential race---usually conclude with opportunities for political reflection. Nowhere is this more evident than in the blogosphere, now crowded with academics' reflections mere days following the tallying of votes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-election roundups &amp; more</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/449169176/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/11/post-election-roundups-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan VanAntwerpen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[A Secular Age]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img class="alignright alignnone size-full wp-image-798" style="float: right;" src="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/hopehopehope2.jpg" alt="&#60;br /&#62;" width="200" height="129" />In conjunction with recent post-election reflections at The Immanent Frame by <a title="Magic, comedy and civic religion" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/10/magic-comedy-and-civic-religion/" target="_self">Howard Adelman</a>, <a title="The magic ballot" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/the-magic-ballot/" target="_self">Arjun Appadurai</a>, <a title="An internationalist president" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/an-internationalist-president/" target="_self">John Esposito</a>, <a title="The evangelical vote in question" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/04/the-evangelical-vote-in-question/" target="_self">Conrad Hackett</a>, <a title="Changing of the guard" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/changing-of-the-guard/" target="_self">D. Michael Lindsay</a>, <a title="History as guide" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/05/history-as-guide/" target="_self">Elizabeth Prodromou</a> and <a title="A public theologian" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/a-public-theologian/" target="_self">John Schmalzbauer</a>, Nicole Greenfield gathers a <a title="Post-election roundup" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/09/post-election-roundup/" target="_self">selection of articles</a> that consider the role religion played in last Tuesday's election (and the way it might figure politically in the months ahead), while Ruth Braunstein surveys news and analysis on "<a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/10/voting-in-a-year-when-muslim-was-a-slur/" target="_self">Voting in a year when 'Muslim' was a slur</a>." Find both of these roundups (and more) at <a title="perspectives on secularism, religion and the public sphere, from around the web and around the world" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/category/here-there/" target="_self">here &#38; there</a>.

In our ongoing discussions, Patrick Lee Miller continues his <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/10/31/immanent-spirituality/#comments" target="_self">exchange</a> with critics of his recent post on "<a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/10/31/immanent-spirituality/" target="_self">Immanent Spirituality</a>," Arjun Appadurai <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/the-magic-ballot/#comment-4923" target="_self">responds</a> to Jason Kuznicki's criticisms of his post, "<a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/the-magic-ballot/" target="_self">The magic ballot</a>" (and Kuznicki <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/the-magic-ballot/#comment-4944" target="_self">fires back</a>), Christine Wicker and Conrad Hackett <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/10/01/new-study-of-evangelicals-polling-impact/#comment-4890" target="_self">consider</a> how best to grasp the polling impact of "evangelicals," and readers of <em>Christianity Today </em>and others <a title="Charges for Changing of the guard" href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/10/charges-for-changing-of-the-guard/" target="_self">react</a> to D. Michael Lindsay's post on evangelical leaders and the "<a href="http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/changing-of-the-guard/" target="_self">Changing of the guard</a>."]]></description>
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		<title>Magic, comedy and civic religion</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/448863083/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/10/magic-comedy-and-civic-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Adelman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's victory needs to be recognized and celebrated---not simply recognized for the fact that he won, but recognized by understanding the meaning of his victory.]]></description>
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		<title>A public theologian</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/445969161/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/a-public-theologian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schmalzbauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Americans have elected the most theologically astute president since Jimmy Carter.]]></description>
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		<title>An internationalist president</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/immanentframe/~3/445919715/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/11/07/an-internationalist-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Esposito</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion &amp; American politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Muslim world, as in Europe and much of the world, Obama is welcomed as an internationalist president.]]></description>
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