# The Immanent Frame

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{{Infobox magazine
| title = The Immanent Frame
| image_file = The Immanent Frame.jpg
| image_caption = ''Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere''
| editor = Mona Oraby
| editor_title = Editor
| category = Digital Publication
| publisher = [Social Science Research Council](/source/Social_Science_Research_Council)
| founder = Jonathan VanAntwerpen 
| founded = 2007
| country = [United States](/source/United_States)
| based = [Brooklyn, New York](/source/Brooklyn%2C_New_York)
| language = English
| website = http://tif.ssrc.org/
}}

'''The Immanent Frame''' is a digital forum that publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on [secularism](/source/secularism), [religion](/source/religion), and the [public sphere](/source/public_sphere). It was formed in conjunction with projects on [http://www.ssrc.org/programs/religion-and-the-public-sphere/ religion and the public sphere] at the [Social Science Research Council](/source/Social_Science_Research_Council) (SSRC).  Initially conceived as an experimental blog that invited multiple contributions from a number of leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences, The Immanent Frame was established in October 2007 by an SSRC team led by program director [https://tif.ssrc.org/author/vanantwerpen/ Jonathan VanAntwerpen], who served for several years as editor-in-chief.<ref>[https://vanantwerpen.medium.com/imagining-the-immanent-frame-2ad1c3a542b Imagining The Immanent Frame]</ref>

Among other topics, The Immanent Frame launched with an extensive discussion of [Charles Taylor](/source/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher))'s ''[A Secular Age](/source/A_Secular_Age)'' ([Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press), 2007). Sociologist [Robert Bellah](/source/Robert_Bellah) called ''A Secular Age'' "one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime."<ref>[https://tif.ssrc.org/2007/10/19/secularism-of-a-new-kind/ The Immanent Frame: Secularism of a new kind]</ref> The Immanent Frame's discussion of Taylor's book included original contributions by [Robert Bellah](/source/Robert_Bellah), [Wendy Brown](/source/Wendy_Brown_(political_scientist)), [Charles Taylor](/source/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher)), and several others. The name of the digital forum itself alludes to a central concept in Taylor's book.

In 2008, The Immanent Frame was named an official honoree of the 12th annual Webby Awards and a "favorite new religion site, egghead division" by The Revealer.<ref>[https://winners.webbyawards.com/2008/websites/general-websites/blog-culturalpersonal/153182/the-immanent-frame The Webby Awards 2008: The Immanent Frame]</ref><ref>[https://therevealer.org/best-religion-writing-of-2008/ The Revealer: Best Religion Writing of 2008]</ref> In September 2011, The Immanent Frame partnered with Killing the Buddha to launch Frequencies, which was later named an official honoree of the 16th annual Webby Awards.<ref>[https://vanantwerpen.medium.com/jonathan-vanantwerpen-on-frequencies-a-collaborative-genealogy-of-spirituality-62c1d75d7c2c Jonathan VanAntwerpen on Frequencies: a collaborative genealogy of spirituality]</ref>

Recent forums at The Immanent Frame include "Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tif.ssrc.org/category/book-blog/book-forums/nature-and-normativity/|title=Nature and normativity: New inquiries into the natural world}}</ref> "Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tif.ssrc.org/category/book-blog/book-forums/modernitys-resonances/|title = Modernity's resonances: New inquiries into the secular}}</ref> and "Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tif.ssrc.org/2021/01/07/antiblackness-as-religion-introduction/|title = Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19}}</ref> In November 2019, [http://tif.ssrc.org/author/orabym/ Mona Oraby], The Immanent Frame's current editor, worked with Daniel Vaca and others to launch another special project, entitled [http://tif.ssrc.org/category/a-universe-of-terms/ The Universe of Terms], which asked how scholars might "advance the academic study and public understanding of religion and secularism in a way that meets college students' demand for visual imagery, pithy prose, and compelling narratives."<ref>[http://tif.ssrc.org/2019/11/14/creating-the-universe/ The Immanent Frame: Creating the Universe]</ref>

Contributors to The Immanent Frame have included: [Arjun Appadurai](/source/Arjun_Appadurai), [Talal Asad](/source/Talal_Asad), [Rajeev Bhargava](/source/Rajeev_Bhargava), [Akeel Bilgrami](/source/Akeel_Bilgrami), José Casanova, [Craig Calhoun](/source/Craig_Calhoun), [Dipesh Chakrabarty](/source/Dipesh_Chakrabarty), [William E. Connolly](/source/William_E._Connolly), [Veena Das](/source/Veena_Das), [Hent de Vries](/source/Hent_de_Vries), [Wendy Doniger](/source/Wendy_Doniger), [Simon During](/source/Simon_During), [John Esposito](/source/John_Esposito), [Nilüfer Göle](/source/Nil%C3%BCfer_G%C3%B6le), [David Hollinger](/source/David_Hollinger), [Mark Juergensmeyer](/source/Mark_Juergensmeyer), [Mark Lilla](/source/Mark_Lilla), Kathryn Lofton, [Tanya Luhrmann](/source/Tanya_Luhrmann), [Saba Mahmood](/source/Saba_Mahmood), [Martin E. Marty](/source/Martin_E._Marty), [Tomoko Masuzawa](/source/Tomoko_Masuzawa), [Russell T. McCutcheon](/source/Russell_T._McCutcheon), [Birgit Meyer](/source/Birgit_Meyer), [John Milbank](/source/John_Milbank), John Lardas Modern, [Tariq Modood](/source/Tariq_Modood), Jean-Claude Monod, [Ebrahim Moosa](/source/Ebrahim_Moosa), [Samuel Moyn](/source/Samuel_Moyn), [Robert Orsi](/source/Robert_Orsi), [Ann Pellegrini](/source/Ann_Pellegrini), [Elizabeth Povinelli](/source/Elizabeth_Povinelli), [Vijay Prashad](/source/Vijay_Prashad), [Robert D. Putnam](/source/Robert_D._Putnam), Olivier Roy, [Joan Wallach Scott](/source/Joan_Wallach_Scott), [Jonathan Z. Smith](/source/Jonathan_Z._Smith), [Judith Stacey](/source/Judith_Stacey), [Alfred Stepan](/source/Alfred_Stepan), Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, [Mark C. Taylor](/source/Mark_C._Taylor_(philosopher)), [Peter van der Veer](/source/Peter_van_der_Veer), [Michael Warner](/source/Michael_Warner), [Nicholas Wolterstorff](/source/Nicholas_Wolterstorff), [Molly Worthen](/source/Molly_Worthen), and many others.

In 2016, The Immanent Frame established its first editorial board.<ref>[https://tif.ssrc.org/2016/03/14/new-editorial-board/ The Immanent Frame: New editorial board]</ref> Board members included sociologists Courtney Bender and Ruth Braunstein, political scientist [Elizabeth Shakman Hurd](/source/Elizabeth_Shakman_Hurd), anthropologists [Saba Mahmood](/source/Saba_Mahmood) and [Mayanthi Fernando](/source/Mayanthi_Fernando), historian Daniel Vaca, among others. Recent additions to The Immanent Frame's editorial board include Vaughn Booker, Todne Thomas, and [Nathan Schneider](/source/Nathan_Schneider).<ref>[https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/11/06/editorial-board-updates-2020/ The Immanent Frame: Editorial board updates]</ref>

==Notes==
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==External links==
* [http://tif.ssrc.org/ The Immanent Frame]
* [http://www.ssrc.org/ Social Science Research Council]
* [https://internationalepolitik.de/de/geologie-des-saekularen Alexandra Kemmerer, Geologie des Säkularen, 63 Internationale Politik, No. 1, 106-07 (2008)]

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