Heretics Among Us
Jennifer Barry reviews Todd Berzon’s Classifying Christians The current political climate in the United States attests to an increasingly potent form of social
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Race, Difference, and Religion: Is There a Universal Humanity?
Ruth Jackson reviews Theodore Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race “The cry of equality pulls everyone down” — Iris Murdoch In an episode from
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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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Saint of Science: The Religious Life of Isaac Newton
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. When Isaac Newton died on March 31, 1727, his
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The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with
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Revolutionary Reading? The Bible of the Reformers
Relearning Where to Stand In the year 1600, there were only a handful of known heliocentrists. Galileo, of course, would do a great
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Marketing Religion in the Roman Empire
Sarah E. Rollens reviews At the Temple Gates by Heidi Wendt In her new book At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance
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God’s Business: Thinking About Religion Through Economics
Nile Green applies economic thinking to matters of faith Smartphone in hand, with a carefully trimmed beard and a constant eye on his
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Impolite Conversation #19: Religion and Politics in Contemporary China
On this month’s Impolite Conversation, our friend Courtney Bruntz stops by the studio to talk us through which forms of religion are legal
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MRBlog | Sticking to Your Convictions: The Brain and Belief
By Sarah E. Rollens Most of us like to think that our worldviews result from our own careful navigation through life’s
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