For the Record – By Joseph Winters
Joseph Winters on Lerone Martin’s Preaching on Wax In her seminal article, “Rethinking Vernacular Culture,” historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham encourages students of religion
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Modernity and Mineness – By Andrew Dole
Andrew Dole on Kevin Hector’s Theological Project of Modernism My life revolves around a variety of projects. Some are mostly under my control:
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Theorizing the Qurʾanic Miracle – By Bruce Fudge
Bruce Fudge on al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Rummānī, and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, Three Treatises on the Iʿjāz of the Qurʾān The first time I attempted to
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“A deeply textured trove of learning and reference”: The Gift of David Jones – By Francesca Brooks
Francesca Brooks on Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills, The Art of David Jones It was in the afternoon sunshine at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
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Making the Qurʾan Turkish: Translation and Power in the Ottoman Empire – By Micah Hughes
Micah Hughes on M. Brett Wilson’s Translating the Qurʾan in an Age of Nationalism What could be more unassuming and unexceptional than translation?
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Whose God was Slain? Anthropology and the Diversity of World Christianity – By Jason Bruner
Jason Bruner on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God Is anthropology inherently inimical to the truth claims of the Christian faith? In The Slain
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A Virtuous Village, a Pure Voice: The Moralization of Semiotic Form in the Christian Pacific – Webb Keane
Webb Keane reviews Handman’s Critical Christianity and Harkness’s Songs of Seoul What does being a Christian guarantee? For many empirical observers, theology will
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Babylon’s Imperial Allure – By Phillip M. Sherman
Phillip M. Sherman on Erin Runions’s The Babylon Complex Mythology matters. The stories we tell ourselves, individually and collectively, shape our experience of
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Wall Street Goes to War: Hardhat Politics and the Culture War of Everything since the 1960s – L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky on Stephen Prothero’s Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When they Lose Elections) On the morning of May 8,
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Out of This World: Virtual Reality and Philosophical Talmud – By Zachary Braiterman
Zachary Braiterman on Sergey Dolgopolski’s The Open Past As a “religious” document, the Babylonian Talmud is as strange as it gets. A web
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