Directions in the Study of Religion: Nathan Abrams
Kristian Petersen talks with Nathan Abrams, Professor at Bangor University and member of the Advisory Board of MRB, about Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism in
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First Impressions #43: Hillary Kaell
Kristian Petersen talks with Hillary Kaell about her new book, Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage. Dr. Kaell is a
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff
Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in
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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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Impolite Conversation #2: Supreme Court Wrap-Up 2015
In this month’s episode, we talk to Ann Duncan of Goucher College about two big Supreme Court cases: EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch
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The Politics of Prosperity: Pentecostalism as Critique – By Naomi Haynes
Naomi Haynes on Ilana Van Wyk’s The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa In 2013, ten years after I
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First Impressions #42: E.M. Rose
Art Remillard talks with E.M. Rose about her new book, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in
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MRBlog | The Sense of Senselessness – By Patrick Blanchfield
Patrick Blanchfield on politicians’ cheap responses to mass shootings Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal spoke on last night’s mass shooting in a Lafayette
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MRBlog | Respecting Religion: The Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Impression
Andrew B. Irvine on art and the experience of others This past April in Knoxville, Tennessee, Andrew Irvine was one of three speakers at a “Table
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. The Pope in Ecuador – By Noah Schumer
Noah Schumer reports from Ecuador On a June evening two weeks before Pope Francis’s arrival in Ecuador, I watch a half-dozen workers balance
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