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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Religion
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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A Unified Reading of Maimonides’ Guide – By Dani Rabinowitz
Dani Rabinowitz on Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight
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The Arabic Bible before Islam – By Clare Wilde
Clare Wilde on Sidney H. Griffith’s The Bible in Arabic Non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, have spoken Arabic since before the revelation of
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The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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The Morning After – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Porochista Khakpour’s The Last Illusion I was in New York on September 11th. The sound of sirens jolted me out
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Jesus vs. Judaism … Again – By Eva Mroczek
Eva Mroczek on David A. deSilva’s The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha In 1973,
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Enlightened Religion? Idealism as the History and Destiny of Modern Theology
Samuel Loncar on Gary Dorrien’s Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealist Logic of Modern Theology Is a truly modern religion possible? Can faith survive
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