Escaping Colonialism, Rescuing Religion – By Alexandra Kaloyanides
Alexandra Kaloyanides on Alicia Turner’s Saving Buddhism Last spring, I taught a seminar on Buddhism to a group of 16 students at a
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Reviews
Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music – By Lieke Wijnia
Lieke Wijnia on Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus In the song Irreplacable (2006), Beyoncé puts her lover’s possessions in a box and
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The Talmud and the Desert Fathers – By Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin on Michal Bar-Asher Siegal’s Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud The study of the Babylonian Talmud is right now a hot
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Worlds Together: Gregory, Julian, and the Heirs of the Classical Heritage – By John Anthony McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin on Susanna Elm’s Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church Susanna Elm has produced a work that shakes the classical
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A Blessing on Your Head, and Other Ways to Deliver a Beating in Yiddish – By Simon Rabinovitch
Simon Rabinovitch on Yiddish Fight Club Yiddish is rich in the vocabulary of street-violence, taken from the ring, the docks, and the factories
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The Vibrant Religious Life of Silicon Valley, and Why It’s Killing the Economy
Samuel Loncar on Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future? He even looks like a prophet. Well, how a prophet might look like in
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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Theology and the University: A Lover’s Quarrel – Jonathan D. Teubner
Jonathan D. Teubner on Johannes Zachhuber’s Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany “A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution,”
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Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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The Ghost of Jabotinsky and the Future of Israel – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Hillel Halkin’s Jabotinsky: a Life There is little question that Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist Movement, was one of
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