Philosophers and YouTube – by Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton on communicating philosophy in a digital age Traditionally, philosophy has been nervous around the idea of communication. Reaching out has
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First Impressions #19: Michael Birkel
Art Remillard talks with Michael Birkel about his new book, Qur’an in Conversation. Birkel is Professor of Religion at Earlham College in Indiana. Listen
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Religious Controversies (the rest is silence) – By Sean Henry
Sean Henry on Peter Iver Kaufman’s Religion Around Shakespeare On 24th August, 1572, the feast of St. Bartholomew, the people of Paris rose up and
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Coffee Table Talk with Charlotte Hempel
In this interview with MRB’s editor-in-chief Timothy Michael Law, Charlotte Hempel discusses how she began her career of study in the Dead Sea Scrolls, where
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Kristian Petersen talks with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, about the Politics of Religious Freedom.
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First Impressions #18: Reggie Williams
Art Remillard talks with Reggie Williams about his new book, Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance. Williams is
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Native Americans and the Colonists in the Great Awakening – By Michael Guéno
Michael Guéno on Linford D. Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America For some time now historians
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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Imagining Life Beyond Capital – By Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century There may be no more important topic to discuss at present than that
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Turning King to Messiah: The Islamic King in Central Asia and India – By Roy S. Fischel
Roy S. Fischel on A. Azfar Moin’s The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam Tales of kings have always ignited the
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