The Immanent Frame
Continuing the conversation started during the “Word, Image, Sound” workshop, IRCPL was invited by managing editor, Mona Oraby, to curate a conversation on The Immanent Frame – a digital forum hosted by the Social Science Research Council that publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
Selected workshop participants and public lecturers were invited to contribute original essays that explore questions concerning how we approach the study of public religion. Special emphasis in this series was placed on reaching broad audiences, and therefore drawing attention to the larger project. As Matthew Engelke wrote in his introduction to the forum, the authors of these essays “are developing oblique approaches to the articulation of public religion, and, in so doing, underscoring the centrality of religious publicity. Taken together, they allow for newly comparative angles on a well-developed subject of interest, putting the public into motion, into the air, and, quite literally in some cases, into the concrete.”
