Nightmares and Dreams – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights There’s a lot of talk about religion in Salman Rushdie’s new
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On the Origin of Caliphates – By Hamza M. Zafer
Hamza M. Zafer on Steven Judd’s Religious Scholars and the Umayyads In the late spring of 680 CE, Yazid bin Mu‘awiya from the
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The Sound of Meaning – By Vanessa De Gifis
Vanessa De Gifis on Karen Bauer’s edited volume, Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis We have all heard the philosophical question: If
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Possible Moralities in Impossible Times – By Saskia Coenen Snyder
Saskia Coenen Snyder on Bernard Wasserstein’s The Ambiguity of Virtue The behavior of the Jewish Councils, the administrative bodies appointed by the Germans
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Marcion and the Ideology of Texts – By Judith Lieu
Judith Lieu on Dieter Roth’s The Text of Marcion’s Gospel The name “Marcion” will evoke one or both of two images. The first
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Is There a Message In the Music? – By Anthony B. Pinn
Anthony B. Pinn on Robert Darden’s Nothing But Love in God’s Water Think about the following scene: Enslaved Africans physically abused, mentally tortured,
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“Jesus H. (as in, Hasidic) Christ!” – By Allan Nadler
Allan Nadler on Shaul Magid’s Hasidism Incarnate Pope Francis’s disclosure, early on in his papacy, that his favorite painting is Marc Chagall’s 1938
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“From Despair to Hope”: Antiretroviral Therapy, Redemption, and Christianity in Africa – By Jessica Hardin
Jessica Hardin on Rijk van Dijk, et al. (eds), Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa In 2009, an estimated 2.1 million people with
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff
Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in
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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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