Catholicism as Contradiction
Katherine Dugan reviews The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader Pope Francis’ recent trip to South America was one of the most embroiled of
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The Pope and The Pill
Karen Ross reviews Aline Kalbian’s Sex, Violence, and Justice In 1968 the Catholic Church addressed the issue of artificial contraception in its encyclical
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Race, Difference, and Religion: Is There a Universal Humanity?
Ruth Jackson reviews Theodore Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race “The cry of equality pulls everyone down” — Iris Murdoch In an episode from
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Karma in the Public Sphere: Habermas in Ancient India
William E. B. Sherman on Christian Novetzke’s The Quotidian Revolution Let the knowledge of Brahman abound in the city of Marathi. During the
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The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History
Will Theiss on France’s greatest historian In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was
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The Once and Future Mainline College
Paul W. Gleason reviews Robert Benne’s Keeping the Soul in Christian Higher Education By now, the demographic decline of the Protestant mainline churches
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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Magic and Science in Medieval Ashkenaz
Dana Fishkin reviews David Shyovitz’s A Remembrance of His Wonders The study of medieval Jewish history often yields examples of beliefs, practices, conventions or
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Buddhist Spaces: Beyond Secularity
Eric Huntington Reviews Thomas McDaniel’s Architects of Buddhist Leisure Justin Thomas McDaniel’s new book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, seeks to demolish conceptual barriers
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Naked Luther: The Politics of Culture in Three Early Images of Luther
Brian Cummings on the iconography of the reformer Images of Martin Luther abound in his anniversary year, and they tend to conform to
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