Divided by Reason – By David R. Swartz
David R. Swartz on Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. In 1994, historian Mark Noll published his
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History
Milton Friedman Drove Out Leviticus – By Charles Halton
Charles Halton on Andro Linklater’s Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Karl Marx summarized his assessment of the newly declared Commonwealth
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Anglican Gothic in the British Empire – By Zirwat Chowdhury
Zirwat Chowdhury on G.A. Bremner’s Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870 Following a visit to Stirling Castle,
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Are Evangelicals the New Liberals?
Samuel Loncar on David Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire and Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason It’s an old story. As the world becomes
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A Conversation with Sayed Kashua
Margaret Litvin and Simon Rabinovitch with Sayed Kashua In Emile Habibi’s satirical novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974), the Arab
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The Theology of Jim Crow – By Colin Chapell
Colin Chapell on Carolyn Renée Dupont’s Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 Faithful responses to the Christian gospel inspired
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The Problem with Identity in Late Antiquity – By Todd Berzon
Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity We know Porphyry of
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Not Like the Egyptians – By Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin on Beth A. Berkowitz’s Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present Trigger warning: devotees of popular Kabbalah and Judaism may be distressed
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A Radical Reassessment of the French Revolution – By Sinéad Fitzgibbon
Sinéad Fitzgibbon on Jonathan Israel’s Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre If ever there were
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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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