Children of God
The meaning of children in early Christianity What is childhood? Does it correspond to age? Is it a stage of psychological development? Is
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Imagined Israel: The Problem of Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Michael A. Di Giovine on Hillary Kaell’s Walking Where Jesus Walked Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a longstanding tradition; our earliest
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Breaking the Law: Criticizing the Modern Study of Islamic Law
Joseph Lowry on Lena Salaymeh’s The Beginnings of Islamic Law Historical understanding is never achieved from an unsituated vantage point, and an inescapable
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The Cure for Computation — By Audrey Borowski
Leibnizian Musings on Intellectual Automation Software has taken over our lives. From the phones we carry, the planes we fly, and the cars
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Sacred Text of a Different Sort
The Glories of English Medieval Embroidery Let me begin by disclosing a bias. Having spent the early years of my academic career trying
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Missionaries and Sufi Masters: Islam and the Religious Marketplace
Philippe Bornet on Nile Green’s Terrains of Exchange What is the common denominator between distinguished Oxbridge Orientalists, a German Christian missionary active on
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First Impressions #102: Birgit Meyer on Ghana’s Hollywood
Christianity has greatly shaped popular filmmaking in Ghana. Kristian Petersen talks with Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utrecht,
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Bad Blood in Gilded Age America
Margaret Deli on Charles Molesworth’s The Capitalist and the Critic On Tuesday, February 28, Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure as director and
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Job on the Big Screen
How The Shack rewrote Scripture Stuart Hazeldine’s The Shack is a striking example of the mainstreaming of evangelical Christian popular culture. Out on
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In Moonlight
Taylor Barfield on Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight In his first interview after winning the Oscar for best picture, Moonlight director
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