Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
Alexandra Barylski on Molly Spencer Well-deserved winner of the Brittingham Prize selected by Carl Phillips, If the house bears the mark of all
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religion
Is Capitalism Compatible with Christianity?
Christina McRorie on Kathryn Tanner Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds. In his 1904 classic The Protestant Ethic and the
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Secularism as A New Religion
Evan Kuehn on Todd Weir Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines. This is the secularization
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The Revival of Raced-Based Medicine: Eugenics, Religion, and the Black Experience
Audrey Farley on K. A. Johnson In a 2018 Vogue magazine cover story, tennis star Serena Williams shared her harrowing experiences in the
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Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Was the Word in the Beginning? On the Relationship between Language and Concepts
Adele Reinhartz on Boyarin’s Judaism As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book, Judaism: The
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The Heartbreak of Modernity
Martin Kavka on Boyarin’s Judaism The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern
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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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