Spirit and Literacy, Prophecy and Modernity in a South African Church – by Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward on Joel Cabrita’s Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church A hundred years ago, around the time of the
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Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley
Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the
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Of Witches and the Holy Spirit: Christian Film Production in Ghana – by Katrien Pype
Katrien Pype on Birgit Meyer’s Sensational Movies Nollywood is a Lagos-based film industry that has been captivating wide audiences in Nigeria and its
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An Androcentric Discipline? The Gender Troubles of Qur’anic Exegesis – by Ali Altaf Mian
Ali Altaf Mian on Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an Gender is a widely debated topic in contemporary Islam. Many Muslims, and
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Corrective Spaces – by Sarah E. Bond
Sarah E. Bond on Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment, and Penance in Late Antiquity Curated spaces have the ability to embody our belief systems,
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Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
David Bertaina on on Michael Penn’s Envisioning Islam At the beginning of his reign (705-715), the caliph al-Walid inaugurated the creation of a
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Problems of Poverty and the Recently Impoverished – By John Mandsager
John Mandsager on Gregg Gardner’s The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism According to Suetonius (Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II.91), once
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Puritans, Neo-Puritans, and the Ongoing Legacies of Mainline Protestantism – By Mark Hulsether
Mark Hulsether on Margaret Bendroth’s The Last Puritans For the past few decades, a top contender for the least cool topic in the
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A Book about Books and a Collection on Collections – By Drew Longacre
Drew Longacre on George W. Houston’s Inside Roman Libraries In the fall of 54 BCE, Cicero wrote to his brother Quintus, “After a
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