News

November 2009

November 9^th 2009: Listen to a recording of Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West at an event co-sponsored by SSRC on religion in the public sphere.

September 2009

September 25^th 2009: SSRC forms new working group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life, co-chaired by Courtney Bender and Omar M. McRoberts.
September 25^th 2009: SSRC announces new advisory committee on Religion and International Affairs, co-chaired by Scott Appleby, Katherine Marshall, and Alfred C. Stepan.
September 11^th 2009: Patrick Lee Miller’s post to The Immanent Frame, “Immanent Spirituality,” is finalist for the 3QD Philosophy Prize 2009, to be announced Sept 22.
September 4^th 2009: “Off the Cuff” continues to post summer reading picks by various contributors to the SSRC’s The Immanent Frame blog.

May 2009

May 12^th 2009: Immanent Frame bloggers debate Obama, civic virtue, and common good in new series, “These things are old.”

March 2009

March 31^st 2009: David Kyuman Kim answers questions about agency for SSRC.org interview.

January 2009

January 27^th 2009: Robert Bellah’s essay on Obama for “The Immanent Frame” excerpted in America, the national Catholic weekly magazine.
January 12^th 2009: On The Immanent Frame, Robert Bellah embraces Obama’s concern for the “common good.”

December 2008

December 5^th 2008: SSRC listed as one of the top five anthropology blogs on OnlineUniversities.com
December 2^nd 2008: In SSRC.org interview, Mark Lilla describes his blogging experience for The Immanent Frame.

October 2008

October 31^st 2008: Patrick Lee Miller disputes Charles Taylor’s assertion about human need for belief in transcendence, on The Immananet Frame.

February 2008

February 10^th 2008: Immanent Frame bloggers discuss headscarf ban on Turkey’s university campuses.

December 2007

December 28^th 2007: Craig Calhoun reflects on the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

September 2007

September 21^st 2007: Religion working group member John Esposito talks to Pakistani journalist about democracy and religious extremism.

June 2007

June 8^th 2007: SSRC salutes Charles Taylor on the occasion of his winning the Templeton Prize.

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