From the Literature of Reimagined Selves – Polly Zavadivker
Polly Zavadivker on An-sky’s Pioneers In the 1880s radical movements proliferated throughout the Russian Empire. Revolutionary ideas found expression in new forms of
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Reviews
The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko on Almond’s The Devil and Korpel and de Moor’s Adam, Eve, and the Devil At first glance, these two studies of
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Nightmares and Dreams – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights There’s a lot of talk about religion in Salman Rushdie’s new
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Thinking with Heidegger: On the Theological Implications of an ‘A-theistic’ Philosophy – By Christopher Barnett
Christopher Barnett on Judith Wolfe’s Heidegger and Theology The opening sequence of Terrence Malick’s 1998 film, The Thin Red Line, is not so
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On the Origin of Caliphates – By Hamza M. Zafer
Hamza M. Zafer on Steven Judd’s Religious Scholars and the Umayyads In the late spring of 680 CE, Yazid bin Mu‘awiya from the
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The Sound of Meaning – By Vanessa De Gifis
Vanessa De Gifis on Karen Bauer’s edited volume, Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis We have all heard the philosophical question: If
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Possible Moralities in Impossible Times – By Saskia Coenen Snyder
Saskia Coenen Snyder on Bernard Wasserstein’s The Ambiguity of Virtue The behavior of the Jewish Councils, the administrative bodies appointed by the Germans
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Marcion and the Ideology of Texts – By Judith Lieu
Judith Lieu on Dieter Roth’s The Text of Marcion’s Gospel The name “Marcion” will evoke one or both of two images. The first
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Is There a Message In the Music? – By Anthony B. Pinn
Anthony B. Pinn on Robert Darden’s Nothing But Love in God’s Water Think about the following scene: Enslaved Africans physically abused, mentally tortured,
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“Jesus H. (as in, Hasidic) Christ!” – By Allan Nadler
Allan Nadler on Shaul Magid’s Hasidism Incarnate Pope Francis’s disclosure, early on in his papacy, that his favorite painting is Marc Chagall’s 1938
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