Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
Simon Rabinovitch on national questions, nostalgia, and the Orthodox Church in Putin’s Russia In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the
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Can a Reader use Western Literary Theory to Approach the Qur’an?
Rachel Friedman on Whitney Bodman’s The Poetics of Iblis Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the
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A Sustained Protestant Onslaught Against Indian Religion
Brian Stanley on Robert A. Yelle’s The Language of Disenchantment Is the world becoming more secular? Debate on this persisting question shows no sign of
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Joseph W. Williams talks about his new book, Spirit Cure
MRB editor Joseph Williams on Pentecostal healing, Oral Roberts, and making money on the Holy Ghost
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C.L. Seow talks to Michael Law about the Illuminations Commentary
Seow’s trip to Taiwan’s National Palace Museum leads to a new commentary series C.L. Seow visited Göttingen in the autumn last year, and
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Did the Ancient Greeks Worship Stones as Gods?
Fernande Hölscher on Milette Gaifman’s Aniconism in Greek Antiquity Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon
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Mauro Perani talks about the Bologna Torah Scroll
The oldest complete Torah scroll re-discovered in Bologna Professor Mauro Perani talked with us this morning by telephone from his office in Bologna.
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Peter Brown talks with Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Part 2
In Part 2 of Ioannis Mylonopoulos’s interview with Peter Brown (catch up with Part 1), the eminent historian talks about his latest book, Through the
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Politics and Culture Wars on the Other Side of American Evangelicalism – By Todd M. Brenneman
Todd M. Brenneman on David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused
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On the Ritual Fringes
Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling isn’t putting down her tallit. She explains the history, politics, and religious strife behind the recent court decision in
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