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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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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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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Religion and National Loyalty
Larry W. Hurtado on the origins of religious pluralism In its first two centuries, early Christianity effectively laid the basis for religious pluralism.
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Beyond Supersessionism: Paul Tillich on Judaism
Susannah Heschel Reviews Robert Meditz After reading this excellent study of Paul Tillich, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, I realized that the
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Islam and the Art of the Cross
Evan Kuehn reviews Navid Kermani Art and religion face each other. Their gaze can offer unity beyond the oppositional pairs that define our
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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The Critics versus Queen
If we’re lucky, we’ve killed a man. A self that has to pass away for something new to be born. People are buying
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
Rachel C. Schneider on Decolonization, Sexuality, and Africa Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people
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