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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
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...
Nov 10, 2017
The Trial of the Talmud
SARAH IFFT DECKER | The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France...
Sep 27, 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 27, 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 13, 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 13, 2017
When Science was Literature and Literature was Science
CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...
Sep 6, 2017
How Christianity Killed the Pagan Gods
JONATHON LOOKADOO | Historical facts and obscure trivia provide excellent material for pub quizzes...
Aug 31, 2017
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