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- September 24th 2013Tenured humanities and social sciences faculty: the DPDF Faculty Field Competition closes in one week (applications due October 1) →
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- September 10th 2013The Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS Program's publication The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century is now available as a free download from UNESCO [PDF] →
- September 10th 2013Forbes reviews 22 Ideas to Fix the World, out today from NYU Press/SSRC →
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Featured Essays
- October 1st 2013Kujenga Amani launches Radar, a feature section on breaking events, with “The Westgate Mall Siege: Reassessing Kenya’s Security Architecture,” by Awino Okech, advisory board member for the African Peacebuilding Network →
- September 26th 2013Read about practices of prayer in Quebec in "Wayside Crosses," by Hillary Kaell, the latest essay in the Reverberations Materiality of Prayer series →
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May 2013
March 2013
- 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 →
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 →
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" →
- October 3rd 2012
- In a new essay for The Immanent Frame, Michael Warner discusses John Lardas Modern's Secularism in Antebellum America →
September 2012
- September 6th 2012
- The Revealer reviews two new SSRC books on secularism and religion →
April 2012
- April 17th 2012
- Religion Program's Frequencies experiment selected as an Official Honoree of the Webby Awards →
January 2012
- January 26th 2012
- Religion Program's Frequencies experiment reaches 100th entry →
October 2011
- October 7th 2011
- John Lardas Modern, co-curator of Frequencies, muses on spirituality, sedentary inwardness, and the amazing machines of Steve Jobs →
June 2011
- June 3rd 2011
- SSRC holds its capstone conference on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life →
September 2010
- September 24th 2010
- The SSRC hosts a workshop on Spiritual Politics/The Politics of Spirituality in conjunction with the project on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life →
June 2010
March 2010
- March 26th 2010
- The SSRC convenes nearly twenty scholars for a two-day workshop on spirituality and civic engagement →
October 2009
- October 29th 2009
- The SSRC’s Working Group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life convenes for a two-day meeting in New York City →
September 2009
- September 25th 2009
- SSRC forms new working group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life, co-chaired by Courtney Bender and Omar M. McRoberts. →
- September 17th 2009
- Nathan Schneider interviews Terry Eagleton, literary theorist and author of Reason, Faith, and Revolution, at The Immanent Frame →
May 2009
- May 12th 2009
- Immanent Frame bloggers debate Obama, civic virtue, and common good in new series, “These things are old.” →
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