Jew and the Making of the Christian Gaze
Annette Yoshiko Reed on Cynthia Baker’s Jew It is a potent time to rethink identity. Much of the twenty-first century had been marked
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Introduction: Forum on Cynthia Baker, Jew
Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed introduce Marginalia’s newest forum As Leopold Zunz once wrote, “Genuine scholarship is generative.” Good scholarship may teach
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Yeah Jew!
Daniel Boyarin on Cynthia Baker’s Jew When my nephew was about eight or so, he went to school one day and, upon returning
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“Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage”: Art and the Sacred in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain – by Emma Mason
Emma Mason on Kathryn Barush’s Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain In a short blog, “The Story of Brexit, in the style
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Secularism in Black – by Joseph Winters
Joseph Winters on Jonathon Kahn and Vincent Lloyd’s Race and Secularism in America Secularism appears to be a fairly self-evident concept. Whether one
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Angels or Animals? Remixing Religion and Evolution with Affect Theory – by Beatrice Marovich
Beatrice Marovich on Donovan Schaefer’s Religious Affects In the 1960s and 1970s, while observing chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Reserve, primatologist Jane Goodall
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Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions
Thomas Harrison on Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel
The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project
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First Impressions #74: John Shelby Spong On Biblical Literalism as a “Gentile Heresy”
A close reading of Matthew’s gospel reveals that a literal understanding of Jesus’s story obscures its deep Jewish roots. John Shelby Spong joins
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The Beauty of Blighted Bodies? – By Taraneh Wilkinson
Taraneh Wilkinson on Kristina Richardson’s Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World The current disability justice movement encourages us as members of
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