Beyond Colonial Classification – By Kimberly Arkin
Kimberly Arkin on Sarah Stein’s Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria Since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000, the
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Reviews
Pressing On: Pentecostalism and Perseverance – By Anna Strhan
Anna Strhan on Girish Daswani’s Looking Back, Moving Forward What does it mean to keep going? And what new avenues might be opened
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Tracing out the Limits of Pentecostalism in Africa – By Konstanze N’Guessan
Konstanze N’Guessan on Martin Lindhardt’s edited volume, Pentecostalism in Africa On 18 September 2010, I witnessed about 500 women following the call of
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Is Compassion Kosher? – By Kari Weil
Kari Weil on Gross’s Question of the Animal and Religion For most Americans, animals are ubiquitous in our lives. There are the so-called
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Representing the Jews in Medieval Iberia – By Eva Frojmovic
Eva Frojmovic on Pamela Patton’s Art of Estrangement This important book undertakes for the first time, at least in an English publication, to
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Telling the Story of Women in Japanese Religions – By Jessica Starling
Jessica Starling on Ambros’s Women in Japanese Religions This spring I was invited to give a talk at a public library in Central
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Intermarriage and the Complexity of Jewish Identity – By Sarah Imhoff
Sarah Imhoff on Jennifer A. Thompson’s Jewish on Their Own Terms & Keren R. McGinity’s Marrying Out What is intermarriage? The answer seems obvious: marriage
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The Enemies of our Enemies: Islam in Nazi Germany – By Mehnaz M. Afridi
Mehnaz Afridi on Motadel’s Islam and Nazi Germany’s War The study of Muslims during World War II, Muslims and their role in the
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How to Be Human in a Machine World
Samuel Loncar on the future of humans in a world dominated by computers Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction.
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Max Weber on Religion: Beyond Secularization – By Johannes Zachhuber
The dismissal of Weber’s worth as a theorist of historical and contemporary religion is premature. The so-called secularization thesis — the notion that
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