Can Science Be Unified? Oneness and Its Discontents
Lisa H. Sideris Read as a PDF. Deep within we long for unity because, at the most fundamental level, we are already one. We belong
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A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
Alexandra Barylski Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own. City dwellers confront this need in
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The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
Rushain Abbasi So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity
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The Cherubim: From Guardians of Eden to Auschwitz
James A. Diamond Anxiety of Cherubim I have been thinking for quite some time now about the significance of angels in the Jewish
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Thoreau and The Future of Social Justice
Alda Balthrop-Lewis At various moments in the 20th century, some corners of US academic culture were blinded to religion, having been seduced by
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Thoreau’s Religious Self: A Model for Our Moment?
Rebecca Kneale Gould on Thoreau’s Religion Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion. She is,
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Mysticism and Kabbalah: A Controversy
Pinchas Giller on Boaz Huss and Clemence Boulouque Since the days of ancient Egypt, religion was a business pursued by families and supporting
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History’s Imagined Past: How Scholars Invented Historical Time
Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Oded Steinberg’s Race, Nation, History The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question: Was
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Religious Naturalism: Thoreau, Justice, and The Human
Carol Wayne White on Thoreau’s Religion There is much to mine and appreciate in Alda Balthrop-Lewis’ capacious rendering of Thoreau’s religiosity. Thoreau’s Religion:
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How the Constitution Became America’s Bible
Taylor Jipp on Twentieth-Century Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter As Trump recently addressed his audience at the CPAC conference, he called them “the
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