First Impressions #21: Leslie Dorrough Smith
Art Remillard talks with Leslie Dorrough Smith about her new book, Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of the Concerned Women for
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Not Like the Egyptians – By Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin on Beth A. Berkowitz’s Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present Trigger warning: devotees of popular Kabbalah and Judaism may be distressed
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A Radical Reassessment of the French Revolution – By Sinéad Fitzgibbon
Sinéad Fitzgibbon on Jonathan Israel’s Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre If ever there were
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Pig Pickin’ in North Carolina: Southern Secularism and Religion
Michael J. Altman on Chad E. Seales’s The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town The pig is a sacrifice in the American South.
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DISPATCHES. An Interview with California Winemaker Sean Thackrey
By Charles Halton I recently travelled with my wife, Lori Halton, to Bolinas, California to talk with winemaker Sean Thackrey. Thackrey’s winemaking style is
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Caroline Schroeder
Kristian Petersen talks with Caroline Schroeder, Associate Professor in Religious and Classical Studies at University of the Pacific, about a new digital project called
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First Impressions #20: Amy DeRogatis
Art Remillard talks with Amy DeRogatis about her new book, Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism. DeRogatis is Associate Professor of
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Locating Memory between Story and History – By Mark McEntire
Mark McEntire on Jacob L. Wright’s David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory The field of biblical studies has yet to escape
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DISPATCHES. Notes on First Visiting Morocco: A Reverie of Fes, March 2008 – By Ted Scheinman
It was dusk and we came to one of those little Fellini crossroads in Old Fes, where five passageways meet and no one
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The Art of War Poetry – By Christopher Kempf
Christopher Kempf demands more from poetic engagement with human suffering In June of 1982, taking advantage of the decades-long civil war between Lebanon’s majority
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