Landscapes of the Soul
A review of Angel Hill Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate level. The public readily
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Reviews
Shakespeare’s Bodies Onstage
A review of Early Modern Actors & Shakespeare’s Theatre: Thinking with the Body I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very
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Is There Racism in Heaven?
Nick Cave’s Until at MASS MoCA Until by Nick Cave, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, on view through September 4, 2017. Nick Cave
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Imagining Pakistan: Religion at the Origins of Nationalism
Sohaib I. Khan on Venkat Dhulipala’s Creating a New Medina Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject
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Rethinking Sacred Space
Laura Moffatt on Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Sheherazade Guidici’s Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space I’m becoming increasingly convinced that
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Systematic Theology and Biblical Criticism
Brad East on Ephraim Radner’s Time and the Word Should the Bible be read like any other book? Such a question was not asked
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Haunted Bodies: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Alexandra Barylski on Molly McCully Brown’s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded What sin warrants a blown brain, a lame body?
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Identity and Commentary in the Sufi Tradition
The Life of Ibn al-Mubārak One of the more difficult tasks facing historians of early Sufism is to disentangle its development as an
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The Qur’an Illuminated
Yael Rice on Islamic Book and Manuscript Arts in America In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that
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Beautiful and Meaningless
Bosch and Bruegel Beyond Iconography In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through
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