News

September 2013

September 26th 2013
Read about practices of prayer in Quebec in "Wayside Crosses," by Hillary Kaell, the latest essay in the Reverberations Materiality of Prayer series →
September 12th 2013
The Immanent Frame contributors reflect on their summer reading on secularism, religion, and public life →
September 3rd 2013
At Reverberations, Ebenezer Obadare writes about prayer and identity in African Pentecostal communities →

August 2013

August 22nd 2013
Kathleen Skerrett discusses the need to protect more diverse forms of religious expression in “Religious Freedom and Multiculturalism: Canadian Contentions,” new at The Immanent Frame →

July 2013

July 31st 2013
In the latest installment of The Immanent Frame's Off the Cuff series, respondents from a range of disciplines and institutions ponder US Department of State plans to create an office of religious engagement →
July 2nd 2013
New at The Immanent Frame: "Is Absolute Secularity Conceivable?," by Simon During →
July 1st 2013
NDSP grantee Tanya Luhrmann's (2012) latest op-ed in the New York Times considers C. S. Lewis as evangelical rock star and the importance of fiction in Western society →

June 2013

June 6th 2013
Explore "The Materiality of Prayer," an unfurling Reverberations multimedia portal, curated by New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Anderson Blanton (2012) →

May 2013

May 13th 2013
"The Ivory Tower in Cyberspace: Is Internet Publishing Publishing?": NDSP grantee Norris Chumley (2012) discusses SSRC Forums The Immanent Frame, Reverberations, and Frequencies as "creditable sources of scholarly research" in an article for the Huffington Post →

April 2013

April 10th 2013
New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Tanya Luhrmann (2012) opens her series of guest op-eds for the New York Times with "How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect" →

March 2013

March 21st 2013
Op-ed by New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Peter Manseau featured in the New York Times: "In Praise of Priestly Marriage" →
March 13th 2013
At the Religion Program's new digital forum Reverberations, Steven Barrie-Anthony interviews Tanya Marie Luhrmann about her book, When God Talks Back, and her work on modern evangelicalism →
March 8th 2013
The Religion Program unveils the latest SSRC Forum, Reverberations: New Directions in the Study of Prayer →

January 2013

January 24th 2013
New American Academy of Religion program unit on secularism and secularity, cochaired by program director Jonathan VanAntwerpen, issues Call for Proposals →
January 18th 2013
At The Immanent Frame, Marcia Pally leads a new exchange on the roots and implications of transformations in the American evangelical community →

December 2012

December 3rd 2012
Read Religion, Development, and the United Nations, an SSRC report detailing the findings of a series of consultations between the SSRC Religion Program, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Interfaith Center of New York →

November 2012

November 13th 2012
Read an excerpt from Birgit Meyer's chapter in What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age →
November 6th 2012
Read the post-storm reflections of scholars from a range of disciplines in "After Sandy: Presidential Rhetoric and Visions of Solidarity," the latest installment of The Immanent Frame's off the cuff series →

October 2012

October 11th 2012
The Religion Program releases new working paper, "Mapping a Field: Why and How to Study Spirituality," by working group co-chairs Courtney Bender and Omar McRoberts →
October 10th 2012
New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Elizabeth Drescher responds to new Pew Research Center report on rising number of religious "nones" →