Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White
Christopher White on Matthew S. Hedstrom’s The Rise of Liberal Religion One of my professors in graduate school, William Hutchison, a man sometimes called
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Reviews
A Thomism for Our Times: Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Lacan – By Rachel J. Smith
Rachel J. Smith on Tina Beattie’s Theology after Postmodernity — Divining the Void: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas According to Michel de Certeau, historians traffic
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The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture – By Jose Bernardi
Jose Bernardi on Logan Wagner, Hal Box, and Susan Kline Morehead’s Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space Architecture
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Jewish Families: From Babylon to Brooklyn and Back Again – By Kimberly Arkin
Kimberly Arkin on Jonathan Boyarin’s Jewish Families A central tension haunts contemporary Jewish studies. Historically, the discipline both presupposed and documented Jewish peoplehood —
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Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
Thomas L. Humphries Jr. on Chad Tyler Gerber’s The Spirit of Augustine’s Early Theology Saint Augustine of Hippo was a latecomer to Christianity. He joined the
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Religion, Violence, and Peace in Northern Ireland – By Gladys Ganiel
Gladys Ganiel on Richard Jordan’s The Second Coming of Paisley; John Brewer, David Mitchell, and Gerard Leavey’s Ex-Combatants, Religion and Peace in Northern Ireland; and John
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Social Power, Pluralism, and Religious Sound in America – By Richard Kent Evans
Richard Kent Evans on Isaac Weiner’s Religion Out Loud Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century was a noisy place. The clip-clop of horse
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Can the Bible Survive Science? – By John Walton
John Walton on Mark Harris’s The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science In 2003, an international research group successfully mapped the human genome,
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The Problem of Paradise – By David Gobel
David Gobel on Annette Giesecke and Namoi Jacobs (eds.), Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden Mighty Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon and gardener par excellence,
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Feasting Eyes and Scopic Torah – By Eva Kiesele
Eva Kiesele on Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing
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