Pig Pickin’ in North Carolina: Southern Secularism and Religion
Michael J. Altman on Chad E. Seales’s The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town The pig is a sacrifice in the American South.
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Christian History
The “Age of Gold,” the Rise of Christianity, and the Fall of Rome – By John Behr
John Behr on Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550
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Christian Sexual Slander – By Taylor Petrey
Taylor Petrey on Susanna Drake’s Slandering the Jew The history of Christian anti-Judaism has become an important scholarly topic in the last half century, arising
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Religious Controversies (the rest is silence) – By Sean Henry
Sean Henry on Peter Iver Kaufman’s Religion Around Shakespeare On 24th August, 1572, the feast of St. Bartholomew, the people of Paris rose up and
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Native Americans and the Colonists in the Great Awakening – By Michael Guéno
Michael Guéno on Linford D. Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America For some time now historians
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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Eusebius of Caesarea and the Making of Early Christianity – By Michael Hollerich
Michael Hollerich on Aaron P. Johnson’s Eusebius As one of the most prolific and influential personages of the early Christian world, Eusebius of Caesarea (c.
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Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White
Christopher White on Matthew S. Hedstrom’s The Rise of Liberal Religion One of my professors in graduate school, William Hutchison, a man sometimes called
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Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
Thomas L. Humphries Jr. on Chad Tyler Gerber’s The Spirit of Augustine’s Early Theology Saint Augustine of Hippo was a latecomer to Christianity. He joined the
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Religion, Violence, and Peace in Northern Ireland – By Gladys Ganiel
Gladys Ganiel on Richard Jordan’s The Second Coming of Paisley; John Brewer, David Mitchell, and Gerard Leavey’s Ex-Combatants, Religion and Peace in Northern Ireland; and John
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