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Holy Humanitarians: Controversies in Christian Philanthropy

December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

David C. Kirkpatrick reviews Heather D. Curtis’ Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid Many American evangelicals encounter the faces and stories of children ... [Read More]

Byzantine Worship in Captivity

December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

Valentina Covaci reviews Daniel Galadza Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is far from the composed reverence ... [Read More]

The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity

November 23, 2018

Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the ... [Read More]

Crime and Consciousness in Modern Mexico

November 23, 2018

Matteo Cantarello on Pablo Piccato’s A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Today, crime speaks a universal language. Every day and ... [Read More]

The Critics versus Queen

November 14, 2018November 14, 2018

If we’re lucky, we’ve killed a man. A self that has to pass away for something new to be born. People are buying ... [Read More]

Does Law Disdain Literature?

November 9, 2018

Andrew Kau on The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his ... [Read More]

Antisemitism Is Our Problem

October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers, ... [Read More]

Border Crossings: Myths and Memories of Tolerance

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018

Leslie Harkema Reviews Eric Calderwood’s Colonial al-Andalus This past summer, migrants from throughout Africa and elsewhere continued to make the journey to Ceuta and ... [Read More]

Bondage and Freedom in Luther

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018

David Fink on some recent biographies of the reformer To make the way smoother for the non-specialist—for only them do I serve—I shall ... [Read More]

Jewish Girls in Medieval Egypt

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018

Amit Gvaryahu Reviews Eve Krakowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt Eve Krakowski’s masterful new book shows how minority community concerns are not ... [Read More]