The Spirit of Yoruba Liberalism
Ebenezer Obadare on J.D.Y. Peel’s Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion For three days in June last year, some students of Baptist High School,
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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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The Genealogy of Ethical Life – by Jon Bialecki
Jon Bialecki on Webb Keane’s Ethical Life I kept on thinking of Nietzsche. I need not have, of course; neither the book, nor
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Faith in Motion: Techniques and Technologies of Prayer in the Appalachians and Beyond – By Bruno Reinhardt
Bruno Reinhardt on Anderson Blanton’s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones In his 1964 classic Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan argued that increasing mediatization has transformed
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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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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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Being Frum in Medieval Ashkenaz – By Julie Mell
Julie Mell on Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz Long before second-wave feminism brought egalitarian practices into Judaism, medieval women were taking
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Hagiography and Hanbalism – By Tasi Perkins
Tasi Perkins on Ibn al-Jawzi’s Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal “All day long I hope for death. I’m afraid of being
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Straight Edge Religion: Hardcore Punk and the Sober Revolution – By David M. Krueger
David M. Krueger on Punk Rock and Religion Growing up in rural Minnesota during the 1980s, I was somewhat insulated from the lesser-known
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The Multi-Ethnic France That is Under Attack – By Ethan Katz
Ethan Katz on what the Paris attacks mean for France The horrific attacks of this January in Paris — first on the satirists at Charlie Hebdo
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