Capitalism as Religion: How Money Became God
REGINA MUNCH | “Where’s the management section?” a man asked the nearest bookseller...
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- Nov 10, 2017
Performing Sacred Tragedies
RON HAFLIDSON | After he was shot and killed by police in 2014, Michael Brown’s body lay alone on a street for several hours...
- Sep 28, 2017
The Trial of the Talmud
SARAH IFFT DECKER | The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France...
- Sep 28, 2017
Fear of a Black Planet
CIAHNAN DARRELL | When I was twenty years old, I was attacked by a group of people outside a nightclub...
- Sep 14, 2017
Figuring the Unknown
CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...
- Sep 14, 2017
Marketing Religion in the Roman Empire
SARAH E. ROLLENS | At the Temple Gates takes its title from the location where numerous philosophers and religious specialists gathered...
- Sep 7, 2017
When Literature was Science
CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...
- Sep 1, 2017
How Christianity Killed the Pagan Gods
JONATHON LOOKADOO | Historical facts and obscure trivia provide excellent material for pub quizzes...
- Aug 30, 2017
Neo-Latin Seizes its Day
A.M. JUSTER | French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of Moliére and Racine to the exclusion of later French writers...
- Aug 28, 2017
Difference and Humanity Among Christians in Indian Slums
LIANA CHUA | Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed...
- Aug 17, 2017
Landscapes of the Soul
MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...
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