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April 2013

April 10^th 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 21^st 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 13^th 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 8^th 2013: The Religion Program unveils the latest SSRC Forum, Reverberations: New Directions in the Study of Prayer →

January 2013

January 24^th 2013: New American Academy of Religion program unit on secularism and secularity, cochaired by program director Jonathan VanAntwerpen, issues Call for Proposals →
January 18^th 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 3^rd 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 13^th 2012: Read an excerpt from Birgit Meyer's chapter in What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age →
November 6^th 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 11^th 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 10^th 2012: New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Elizabeth Drescher responds to new Pew Research Center report on rising number of religious "nones" →
October 3^rd 2012: New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Thomas J. Csordas will give a keynote address at a conference on religion at Northwestern University →
October 3^rd 2012: In a new essay for The Immanent Frame, Michael Warner discusses John Lardas Modern's Secularism in Antebellum America →

September 2012

September 28^th 2012: New Directions in the Study of Prayer has selected twenty-eight grantees to pursue innovative research on practices of prayer →
September 25^th 2012: Suhrkamp has just published Religion und Öffentlichkeit, a German translation of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere →
September 6^th 2012: The Revealer reviews two new SSRC books on secularism and religion →

August 2012

August 30^th 2012: Read an excerpt from Michele Dillon's chapter in the recent NYU Press/SSRC book The Post-Secular in Question →

July 2012

July 19^th 2012: The Immanent Frame introduces a new series on sexual abuse and the Catholic Church with an essay by editor-at-large Kathryn Lofton →

May 2012

May 4^th 2012: CUP releases What Matters?, the product of a series of SSRC workshops. →

April 2012

April 17^th 2012: Religion Program's Frequencies experiment selected as an Official Honoree of the Webby Awards →

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