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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A New Synoptic Gospel? – by Sarah E. Rollens
Sarah E. Rollens on James Barker’s John’s Use of Matthew For someone outside the field, New Testament scholarship can occasionally appear to be
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On July 17, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion at UVa wrapped up. I
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 2) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens In a post last week, I reported on the first week of a three-week NEH Institute on Problems in the Study
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 1) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On May 31, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion was convened at the University
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MRBlog | Two Reviews of Risen (2016)
Religious Studies professors at my institution (Rhodes College) were recently offered tickets to an advanced screening of Risen (Sony 2016). My colleague and I
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MRBlog | Donald Trump’s Bible
(Why Donald Trump’s “Love” of the Bible is Not Incompatible with Him Knowing Next to Nothing about its Contents.) By Sarah Rollens Republican
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MRBlog | #ParisIsBurning: On Recent Representations of Terror
By Sarah Rollens Whenever a devastating act of terrorism occurs in Europe or America, many scholars of religion cringe, knowing that often it
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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens
Sarah Rollens on Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood Recipe for a popular book on religion: one provocative meta-topic (violence is heavily in demand
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