Are Evangelicals the New Liberals?
Samuel Loncar on David Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire and Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason It’s an old story. As the world becomes
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Aaron W. Hughes
Kristian Petersen talks with Aaron W. Hughes, Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester,
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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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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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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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Aztec Birth Customs and Early Modern European Jews – By Adam Shear
Adam Shear on Yaacov Deutsch’s Judaism in Christian Eyes Christian thinkers have always been interested in Jews and Judaism. Some biblical exegetes in
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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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Many Roads Lead from Arimathea – By Ian Boxall
Ian Boxall on William John Lyons’ Joseph of Arimathea Whatever happened to Joseph of Arimathea? Appearing fleetingly in the gospel narratives of Jesus’s burial, he
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Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White
Christopher White on Matthew S. Hedstrom’s The Rise of Liberal Religion One of my professors in graduate school, William Hutchison, a man sometimes called
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A Thomism for Our Times: Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Lacan – By Rachel J. Smith
Rachel J. Smith on Tina Beattie’s Theology after Postmodernity — Divining the Void: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas According to Michel de Certeau, historians traffic
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