Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
Wesley Hill on Paul Griffiths Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus, once crucified and
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Reviews
Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Mexico and the 1968 Generation
Anne Freeland on Susana Draper On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas
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Coercion and Justice in Islam
Mairaj Syed’s book provides a highly readable introduction into how a group of Muslim theologians and jurists understood coercion as a theological, ethical
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Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
Audrey Farley on Michael Pollan In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone
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After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
Thomas Greene reviews With Stones in Our Hands The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an
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Is All Forgiven? Democracy and Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
J.J. Carney on Timothy Longman In 2018, my family enjoyed a lovely Christmas in Rwanda. Although I had conducted research in Rwanda on
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Theology after the Death of God
Paul R. Hinlicky on Robert W. Jenson I. The theology of Robert W. Jenson signals epochal change. An American Lutheran who studied under
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Songs of a Sufi Martyr: Poetry and Heresy in Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
Nathaniel A. Miller on Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry.
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The Many Tales of Joseph Oppenheimer
Joshua Teplitsky on Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker’s new book on crime, sensation, religious-ethnic difference, power, and perspective could not be more timely. The Many
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