Latinx Activists: Politics, Theology, and Church Occupation
Barbara Sostaita on Felipe Hinojosa Felipe Hinojosa’s Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio casts
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Political Theologies: Islam and the Nation-State
Mashal Saif on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s scintillating book illuminates the intellectual universe of colonial-era South Asian traditional Muslim scholars (‘ulama’). It does
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Kafka’s Lost Son
Samuel Liu on Kafka and Biography as a Crime Against the Spirit Every writer has an inner picture, an intuition or a sense
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Science as a Human Story: The Royal Society Recognizes Philip Ball
Philip Ball on winning the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture Philip Ball is the author of over 25 books, a writer, broadcaster, scientist, a
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From Spoons to Garter Belts: Inscribing Time
Daniel Woolf on the Yale Center for British Art collection, Marking Time Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really
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A/Synchronicity: Text and Context in Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
Noah Salomon on SherAli Tareen I spent the first year-and-a-half of the Covid-19 pandemic in Beirut on an extended sabbatical. As a way of
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Becoming The Idol: Classical Indian Dance
Amit Majmudar on Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Bharatanatyam 1. My wife does classical Indian dance. I love to watch her practice because she turns
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Beyond Mosque and Madrasa: Everyday Theology in Islam
Kecia Ali on SherAli Tareen As a new bride and a newish Muslim in the mid-1990s, I spent a lot of time being
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Why Livy Matters
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Some people have all the luck. Alexander the Great said that he loved his tutor, the philosopher Aristotle, more than
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Traditions and Tensions: Islam in Modern South Asia
Ali Altaf Mian on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muḥammad in Modernity models an extended set of close readings of nineteenth- and early
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