Where Does God Dwell? Form Without Faith in Church Arcitecture
Kristi W. Bain Reviews William Whyte’s Unlocking the Church What makes a church, a church? William Whyte seeks to answer this question in his
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Heidegger and the Holocaust
Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism: Shaul Magid on Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Martin
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Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
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Last Words
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey analyzes the ritual of public execution in early modern Britain On the evening of his execution by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas,
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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful
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All Eyes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian for our Troubled Time
Javier Garcia on Christ, Church, and the World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics One figure who has proven particularly resilient to
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
Rachel C. Schneider on Decolonization, Sexuality, and Africa Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people
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Culturally Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Abigail Agresta on Olivia Remie Constable’s To Live Like a Moor What does it mean to be Muslim? To be Christian? Do these identities consist
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Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
A Most Fortuitous Find at Dunhuang, China (1900 C.E.) Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled
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