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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Religion and National Loyalty
Larry W. Hurtado on the origins of religious pluralism In its first two centuries, early Christianity effectively laid the basis for religious pluralism.
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Rhina Espaillat and the Lyre of Orpheus
Alfred Nicol Reviews Rhina P. Espaillat The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth
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Humor and Hope from Passover to Purim
Joel S. Kaminsky on the significance of humor in biblical persecution A number of years ago I wrote an essay examining the humorous elements
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