Hagiography and Hanbalism – By Tasi Perkins
Tasi Perkins on Ibn al-Jawzi’s Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal “All day long I hope for death. I’m afraid of being
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“From Despair to Hope”: Antiretroviral Therapy, Redemption, and Christianity in Africa – By Jessica Hardin
Jessica Hardin on Rijk van Dijk, et al. (eds), Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa In 2009, an estimated 2.1 million people with
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff
Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in
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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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The Politics of Prosperity: Pentecostalism as Critique – By Naomi Haynes
Naomi Haynes on Ilana Van Wyk’s The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa In 2013, ten years after I
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Pavement, Piety, and Prophetic Art – By Karla Cavarra Britton
Karla Cavarra Britton on Flora Samuel and Inge Linder-Gaillard’s Sacred Concrete Le Corbusier, the Franco-Swiss architect, artist, graphic designer, writer, polemicist and mystic,
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The Scandal of Silence – By Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Silence Silence is golden. Or is it? In this intriguing survey of the theme of silence in Christian
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Present and Future of the Hebrew Past – By Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller on William M. Schniedewind’s A Social History of Hebrew The philologist sat with his back hunched, staring, now through a looking
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Signs of a New Age in the Study of the Formation of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts – By David M. Carr
David M. Carr on Reinhard Müller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny’s Evidence of Editing and Juha Pakkala’s God’s Word Omitted Back in the
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The Ancient Origins of Qur’anic Laws – By Emran El-Badawi
Emran El-Badawi on Holger Zellentin’s The Qur’an’s Legal Culture Are the origins of the Qur’an’s laws and rituals traceable to a single ancient
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