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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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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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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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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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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