It is not difficult to see why natural disaster phenomena find religious signification. From the primeval deluge in Genesis to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, religious meaning is often attributed to the calamitous effects of natural disasters which unsettle the status quo.
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Alexandra Barylski on Makoto Fujimura Making begins in love. Where there is love, there is abundance. Even in suffering. And Makoto Fujimura understands
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Jonathan Boyarin on Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper, Nomi Stolzenberg, and David Myers I f you’ve recently driven along Route 17 in Orange County,
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Leah Silvieus on Makoto Fujimura I first encountered Van Gogh’s The Church in Auvers–sur-Oise amid a spiritual crisis the summer I turned 21.
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Timothy Larsen on Frances Larson The first generation of women anthropologists set out to live markedly different lives from their chaperoned and sheltered
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