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Steelers Nation and the Seriously Religious Side of Football – By Arthur Remillard

August 28, 2013January 15, 2014

Arthur Remillard on the religious devotion of football fans The Pittsburgh Steelers nearly broke Terry O’Neill’s heart. On January 15, 2006, O’Neill went ... [Read More]

An Interview with Till Schauder, Director of The Iran Job

August 28, 2013September 20, 2013

Schauder takes us behind his new film The Iran Job is a documentary film about American basketball player Kevin Sheppard, who is signed to ... [Read More]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†

August 21, 2013October 28, 2013

David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom ... [Read More]

In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?

August 15, 2013October 28, 2013

Ishay Rosen-Zvi on Hayim Lapin’s Rabbis as Romans Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the ... [Read More]

Plato, Bakhtin, and the Rabbis Meet Again

August 15, 2013October 28, 2013

Eva Kiesele on Jenny Labendz’s Socratic Torah Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth. The process goes something like this. I hold a ... [Read More]

To Whom is the Qur’an Addressed? – By Whitney S. Bodman

August 15, 2013January 27, 2014

Whitney S. Bodman responds to Rachel Friedman I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would ... [Read More]

Synagogue Architecture in Four Nineteenth-century European Capitals

August 15, 2013October 28, 2013

Vladimir Levin on Saskia Coenen Snyder’s Building a Public Judaism Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four ... [Read More]

Sacred Silence: Marijuana, God’s Law, and Kentucky’s Cornbread Mafia – By James Higdon

August 14, 2013January 15, 2014

James Higdon on the authority of the Church and the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history When I started working on the book ... [Read More]

Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison – By Joshua Dubler

August 13, 2013May 27, 2014

An excerpt from Dubler’s new book [This MRB exclusive is an excerpt from Joshua Dubler’s Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American ... [Read More]

Joshua Dubler talks to MRB’s Joseph Williams

August 13, 2013April 26, 2014

“I am no longer the man I once was” [MRB editor Joseph Williams and Joshua Dubler, an assistant professor of religion at the University of ... [Read More]