Judaism-Hatred vs. Jew-Hatred
Moshe Rosman on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition [This review is the first of seven pieces in our forum, “His Blood Be Upon Us.”
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His Blood Be Upon Us: A Forum on Anti-Judaism
The “problem of Judaism” in the Western Tradition Judaism has inspired a hatred that has shadowed the Jews from the ancient world to
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Anti-Semitism and the Evolving Catholic Conscience
Martin Menke on John Connelly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews New histories of the Shoah provoke
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Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion – By Phillip Sherman
Phillip Sherman on Frans De Waal’s The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Chimpanzees are prone to extreme
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MRB Radio #1: Stephen Haynes
An overlooked part of the Civil Rights Movement Art Remillard talks with Stephen Haynes about his book, The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis
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No Escaping the Cliché: The Legacy of Allan Sherman – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Mark Cohen’s Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a
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Meaning and Mystery and Love – By Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson on Andre Dubus III’s Dirty Love Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins.
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Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger
Katie Heffelfinger on Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts. Last January’s
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Capturing the Paradox of Distaste and Desire – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their
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McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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