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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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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