A Conversation with Sayed Kashua
Margaret Litvin and Simon Rabinovitch with Sayed Kashua In Emile Habibi’s satirical novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974), the Arab
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Jacques Lacan: An Unarchived Life – By Davis Hankins
Davis Hankins on Élisabeth Roudinesco’s Lacan In a recent conversation with my mother, she expressed to me with slight exasperation that pondering the fate
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The Spilling of Women’s Blood – By Gabino Iglesias
Gabino Iglesias on Laura Ellen Joyce’s The Luminol Reels Luminol is a chemical commonly used to give lightsticks their characteristic glow. The compound also
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First Impressions #22: W. Clark Gilpin
Art Remillard talks with W. Clark Gilpin about his new book, Religion Around Emily Dickinson. Gilpin is Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
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And now for something completely different: Brianology Comes of Age; or, What Have the Pythons Done for Us? – By Sarah Prime
Sarah Prime on the Life of Brian Conference at King’s College, London Monty Python’s controversial film comedy Life of Brian (1979) turned 35
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Genius Denied and Reclaimed: A 40-Year Retrospect on Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam – By Bruce B. Lawrence
Bruce B. Lawrence celebrates Hodgson’s moral vision Marshall Hodgson was both a genius and a visionary. While he may have seemed to be
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The Theology of Jim Crow – By Colin Chapell
Colin Chapell on Carolyn Renée Dupont’s Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 Faithful responses to the Christian gospel inspired
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How Not to Criticize the (Evolutionary) Cognitive Science of Religion – By Jonathan Jong
Jonathan Jong on Fraser Watts and Léon Turner (eds.), Evolution, Religion, & Cognitive Science: Critical & Constructive Essays That human beings are incorrigibly religious is
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The Problem with Identity in Late Antiquity – By Todd Berzon
Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity We know Porphyry of
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Directions in the Study of Religion: David Thomas
Kristian Petersen talks with David Thomas, Professor of Interreligious Relations at the University of Birmingham, about The History of Christian-Muslim Relations book series
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