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DANIEL WOOLF | Such beliefs were often strongly felt, Gaskill is at pains to argue, not because his subjects were silly superstitious clods with little education. In fact, magical thinking transcended social and economic status, as many figures we now associate with science and enlightenment engaged in it.

YANIV FELLER | Good Jews was completed less than a year after Hamas’s attack and the war in Gaza, but Cohen’s work suggests that the pillars of philosemitism were already teetering.

Advocates of identity politics on both the left and the right often insist that we are inescapably situated beings, marked by what has been given to us by history, culture, our bodies, and the power relations in which we are enmeshed. We are never free of givens, never purely self-determining.

Frank Griffel is the Professor in the Study of Abrahamic Religions at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University and Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall. This is a forum on his book, The Formation of Post-classical Philosophy in Islam (Oxford University Press). Part one.

MATT McMANUS | Many of capitalism’s most partisan defenders have assumed not only its immortality, but also its eternity.

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | Lives like his were proof that the German philosophy of freedom planted real roots in American institutions before and after the War over Slavery.

LUKE FISCHER | Novalis was polymathic in his range of interests and abilities: a poet, philosopher, scientist, mystic, director of salt mines . . .

Leore Sachs- Shmueli | Mayse book resonates with contemporary concerns regarding embodied piety and subjective experience that are relevent to all people seeking a more integrated understanding of the world.

MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Mary Magdalene was tarred with a misogynous and anti-sexuality brush from the start...

Daniel Woolf on A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered History is a peculiar...

LUKE FISCHER | Humanity is caught within the tension of light and dark, heaven and earth, the eternal and time, divinity and mortality. In its philosophical and mystical tenor and its meditations on the relation between the timeless and time...

SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...