The Cherubim: From Guardians of Eden to Auschwitz
James A. Diamond Anxiety of Cherubim I have been thinking for quite some time now about the significance of angels in the Jewish
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A Forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis’ Thoreau’s Religion
Contributors Religious Naturalism: Thoreau, Justice, and The Human, Carol Wayne White, Presidential Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Bucknell University Thoreau’s Religious Self:
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Formative Years of Islamic History
Isabel Toral-Niehoff on Tobias Andersson The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon. On the one hand, it drew
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Thoreau and The Future of Social Justice
Alda Balthrop-Lewis At various moments in the 20th century, some corners of US academic culture were blinded to religion, having been seduced by
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Thoreau’s Religious Self: A Model for Our Moment?
Rebecca Kneale Gould on Thoreau’s Religion Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion. She is,
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Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response
SherAli Tareen Responds to Forum Contributors I want to begin by registering my profound gratitude to Ali Altaf Mian for his generous time
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Doctrinal Debates in Islam: Beyond Binaries
Megan Eaton Robb on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s book is a thrilling panoramic view of Barelwi-Deoband debates that animated the 19th-century reformist milieu
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Political Theologies: Islam and the Nation-State
Mashal Saif on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s scintillating book illuminates the intellectual universe of colonial-era South Asian traditional Muslim scholars (‘ulama’). It does
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A/Synchronicity: Text and Context in Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
Noah Salomon on SherAli Tareen I spent the first year-and-a-half of the Covid-19 pandemic in Beirut on an extended sabbatical. As a way of
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Beyond Mosque and Madrasa: Everyday Theology in Islam
Kecia Ali on SherAli Tareen As a new bride and a newish Muslim in the mid-1990s, I spent a lot of time being
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