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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Honey on a Razorblade
Thomas J. Millay Reviews Kevin Hart’s Barefoot Dark One, I sit alone without a light And let the darkness bring me close to
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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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