http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:52:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/10/sex-and-the-subject-of-religion/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/10/sex-and-the-subject-of-religion/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:20 +0000 Tracy Fessenden http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/10/sex-and-the-subject-of-religion/ The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good example of what Elizabeth Povinelli in her December 13 post (“Can Sex be a Minor Form of Spitting?”) calls the “mutual conditions and secret agreements” that tie the sexual revolution and Catholic teaching together behind [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/10/sex-and-the-subject-of-religion/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/09/practicing-sex-practicing-democracy/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/09/practicing-sex-practicing-democracy/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:00:24 +0000 Ann Pellegrini http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/09/practicing-sex-practicing-democracy/ Why is it that sex is such a central part of American political life anyway? Why, when The New York Times reported on the influence of “values” voters on the 2004 Presidential election, did the Times name only two “values,” both of them reflecting a conservative sexual ethic: opposition to abortion and opposition to “recognition of lesbian and gay couples”?]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/09/practicing-sex-practicing-democracy/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/08/marriage-plots/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/08/marriage-plots/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:22:33 +0000 Janet Jakobsen http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/08/marriage-plots/ Despite the putative separation of church and state, one of the major places in the U.S. where religion and the state remained entwined is around sexuality, specifically at the point of marriage, where religious officials are actually empowered to act on behalf of the state. And whenever politicians talk about marriage laws, they nearly always do so with reference to religious commitments—and the political affiliation or philosophy of the policymaker doesn’t much matter in terms of this outcome.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/01/08/marriage-plots/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/19/sex-aggression/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/19/sex-aggression/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:00:27 +0000 Jimmy Casas Klausen http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/19/sex-aggression/ I want to raise some questions about Taylor’s account of “our moral landscape” after the mainstreaming of the sexual revolution in the 1960s. Our moral landscape has indeed changed—that is undeniable—and yet, in Taylor’s hands, the cartography of that moral landscape appears all too familiar, and this is so because he does not take—indeed historically has not taken—the challenge of post-Nietzscheanism seriously.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/19/sex-aggression/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/13/can-sex-be-a-minor-form-of-spitting/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/13/can-sex-be-a-minor-form-of-spitting/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:54:13 +0000 Elizabeth Povinelli http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/13/can-sex-be-a-minor-form-of-spitting/ So what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the enormous demands placed on it by those who would see its flourishing or repression as the foundation of all ethical, social, spiritual, and subjective goods.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2007/12/13/can-sex-be-a-minor-form-of-spitting/feed/