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The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History
WILL THEISS | In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was wasting away at...
Mar 16, 2018
Race, Difference, and Religion: Is There a Universal Humanity?
RUTH JACKSON | In an episode from the third season of Mad Men, which is set in the early 1960s and follows a fictional advertising firm...
Mar 16, 2018
Is Liberalism the Problem?
ROSS MCCOLLOUGH | A specter is haunting conservatism — the specter, indeed, of Marx...
Mar 3, 2018
Buddhist Spaces: Beyond Secularity
ERIC HUNTINGTON | Justin Thomas McDaniel’s new book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, seeks to demolish conceptual barriers...
Mar 2, 2018
Magic and Science in Medieval Ashkenaz
DANA FISHKIN | The study of medieval Jewish history often yields examples of beliefs, practices, conventions or sensibilities shared...
Mar 2, 2018
The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
DAVID CURRELL | Imagine this review beginning with a little game...
Feb 2, 2018
Queerness and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible
SUSAN E. HADDOX | What does it mean to be a man...
Jan 19, 2018
The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry
TOM MILLAY | Kevin Hart is not one to boast...
Jan 5, 2018
“The Rights and Wrongs of Resistance”: Shakespeare and Politics
ANDREW S. BROWN | On February 7, 1601, William Shakespeare was enlisted into a paid protest against the policies of a misguided leader...
Jan 5, 2018
Capitalism as Religion: How Money Became God
REGINA MUNCH | “Where’s the management section?” a man asked the nearest bookseller...
Dec 22, 2017
An Act of Solidarity
MARGARET LITVIN | To an academic, any collection of “voices” from the Middle East stirs some doubts...
Dec 7, 2017
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