Social Science Research Council: The Immanent Frame
The Social Science Research Council has announced the launch of The Immanent Frame, a new SSRC blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.
The blog is opening with a series of posts on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, including recent contributions from Robert Bellah, Wendy Brown, Jose Casanova, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, and Colin Jager. Robert Bellah has called A Secular Age “one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime,” and there will be more to come on Taylor’s major work in the weeks ahead, with posts by Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Hent de Vries, Amy Hollywood, Tomoko Masuzawa, Joan Scott, and others. Meanwhile, Charles Taylor himself has just made his own contribution to the already ongoing conversations.
Later this fall The Immanent Frame will host a series of posts responding to Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. And there will be posts on a variety of other topics too—from pluralism and the “post-secular” to international relations theory, religious freedom, and the future of shari’a.
This new SSRC blog will draw on, and is closely linked to, the Council’s expanding work on religion and the public sphere.
I would like to see Talal Asad making a contribution to this. He critiques Taylor’s work in his introduction to Formations of The Secular.