Border Crossings: Myths and Memories of Tolerance
Leslie Harkema Reviews Eric Calderwood’s Colonial al-Andalus This past summer, migrants from throughout Africa and elsewhere continued to make the journey to Ceuta and
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Reviews
Bondage and Freedom in Luther
David Fink on some recent biographies of the reformer To make the way smoother for the non-specialist—for only them do I serve—I shall
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Subversive Islam
Robert W. Hefner on Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking Few fields of social inquiry have undergone as profound and recurring a series of
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Where Does God Dwell? Form Without Faith in Church Arcitecture
Kristi W. Bain Reviews William Whyte’s Unlocking the Church What makes a church, a church? William Whyte seeks to answer this question in his
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Heidegger and the Holocaust
Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism: Shaul Magid on Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Martin
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Last Words
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey analyzes the ritual of public execution in early modern Britain On the evening of his execution by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas,
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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful
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All Eyes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian for our Troubled Time
Javier Garcia on Christ, Church, and the World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics One figure who has proven particularly resilient to
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
Rachel C. Schneider on Decolonization, Sexuality, and Africa Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people
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