Marketing Religion in the Roman Empire
Sarah E. Rollens reviews At the Temple Gates by Heidi Wendt In her new book At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance
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Figuring the Unknown
A review of Judith H. Anderson’s Light and Death: Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton. In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named
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When Literature was Science
Clio Doyle reviews Claire Preston’s The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature.
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How Christianity Killed the Pagan Gods
A review of Larry Hurtado’s Why on Earth Did Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries? and Destroyer of the gods:
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Neo-Latin Seizes its Day
A review of Victoria Moul’s edited collection A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of
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Difference and Humanity Among Christians in Indian Slums
Liana Chua Reviews Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed.
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Landscapes of the Soul
A review of Angel Hill Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate level. The public readily
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The Alt-Right Apocalypse
Hindu Eschatology and the Reactionary Mind The election of Trump heralds a “Dark Age” of ignorance and violence, warn standard-bearers of centrist liberal
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Shakespeare’s Bodies Onstage
A review of Early Modern Actors & Shakespeare’s Theatre: Thinking with the Body I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very
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Muslims and the Making of America
First Impressions #104: Amir Hussain on Muslims and the Making of America There has never been an America without Muslims, and they have
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