First Impressions #72: Seth Dowland on Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right
“Family values” is more than a political slogan. It’s a core feature in the identity of conservative evangelicals born from a response to
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Directions in the Study of Religion: New Approaches to North American Religions
People make sense of their religion through food, medicine, literature, sound, nature, sports, and pilgrimage. Kristian Petersen talks with Tracy Fessenden, Laura Levitt,
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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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When Christians Became Iranian – By Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith on Richard Payne’s A State of Mixture The story typically told about the Christians of the Sasanian Persian Empire is not
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Scripture in the Age of Non-mechanical Reproduction – By Mira Balberg
Mira Balberg on Robert Gregg’s Shared Stories, Rival Tellings In 1996, when DreamWorks Pictures decided to produce an animated musical about the life
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The Sagacious Scholar and the Censor – By Adam Ferziger
Adam Ferziger on Marc Shapiro’s Changing the Immutable Halfway through this exceedingly erudite and equally disturbing study, Marc Shapiro tells a story that
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Vichy Syndrome Revisited – By Sophie B. Roberts
Sophie B. Roberts on Daniel Lee’s Pétain’s Jewish Children A century after France became the first country in Europe to grant Jews citizenship,
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First Impressions # 71: Marc Van De Mieroop on the Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia
Long before Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Babylonians developed their own rational system for exploring truth. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Marc Van De
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Impolite Conversations #8: Oregon Standoff
On this month’s Impolite Conversation, we talk to three scholars about the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. And on
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First Impressions #70: Stephen Prothero on Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars
Culture wars have more to do with defining who is real American than policing what people do in the bedroom. Dave Krueger speaks
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