Karima Bennoune on Human Rights, Religion, and Democracy in the Arab Spring
What is democracy? MRB interviews Karima Bennoune Karima Bennoune is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law
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The Havoc Freedom Wrought – By David de Bruijn
Opinion: David de Bruijn proposes a reconsideration of authoritarianism They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny […] they which find themselves
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Re-Examining Hanukkah
John Ma deconstructs the Maccabean History The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple. Pious Jews revolted
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Stephen Prothero talks to Charles Halton about American Religion
Interfaith 2.0, America’s Bible, and No Common Creed Stephen Prothero is a Professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University. He specializes
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Leila Ahmed talks to Ingrid Lilly about Islam and feminism
Egyptian-American scholar on Islam, feminism, and the veil Leila Ahmed is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and
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Gustavo A. Ramirez on the Rock Art of Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Peyote, shamans, and pre-Hispanic rock art At the second meeting of Historic Archaeology at Mexico’s National History Museum, which took place on May 25th
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Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
Simon Rabinovitch on national questions, nostalgia, and the Orthodox Church in Putin’s Russia In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the
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Can a Reader use Western Literary Theory to Approach the Qur’an?
Rachel Friedman on Whitney Bodman’s The Poetics of Iblis Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the
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A Sustained Protestant Onslaught Against Indian Religion
Brian Stanley on Robert A. Yelle’s The Language of Disenchantment Is the world becoming more secular? Debate on this persisting question shows no sign of
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Joseph W. Williams talks about his new book, Spirit Cure
MRB editor Joseph Williams on Pentecostal healing, Oral Roberts, and making money on the Holy Ghost
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