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Missionaries and Sufi Masters: Islam and the Religious Marketplace
PHILIPPE BORNET | What is the common denominator between distinguished Oxbridge Orientalists, a German Christian missionary...
Mar 28, 2017


Why Sin is Good – By Ed Simon
ED SIMON | Save a few prayers for poor Pelagius, footnote to theological history, whose name mostly endures as an adjective of...
Mar 2, 2017


Science vs. Religion and Other Modern Myths
SAMUEL LONCAR | If god is dead, myth is not...
Oct 7, 2016


How to Be Human in a Machine World
SAMUEL LONCAR | Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction...
Dec 8, 2015


Writing History on the Medieval Blood Libel
SUSAN EINBINDER | The subject of Hannah Johnson’s recent monograph is not really the blood libel ...
Jun 24, 2014


To Speak Truly About God
ROWAN WILLIAMS | When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming?...
May 27, 2014


Can a Reader use Western Literary Theory to Approach the Qur’an?
RACHEL FRIEDMAN | Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the subject of rich and diverse commentaries, a testament to its power as experienced by Muslim and non-Muslim audiences...
Jun 25, 2013


A Sustained Protestant Onslaught Against Indian Religion
BRIAN STANLEY | Is the world becoming more secular?...
Jun 25, 2013


Did the Ancient Greeks Worship Stones as Gods?
FERNANDE HÖLSCHER | Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon in Greek religion...
Jun 12, 2013


Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity
JAMES CARLETON PAGET | F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of Christian origins and, in particular, of the New Testament...
May 29, 2013


Can “Neutral” Historical Scholarship Successfully Grasp a Theologian Who Deconstructed his Own Self?
GORAZD KOCIJANČIČ | At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a lecture in Jerusalem on negative theology...
Mar 26, 2013


Reconstructing Akkadian Texts and Singing the Twelve Days of Christmas
JONATHAN STÖKL | This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed read on textual criticism...
Feb 26, 2013
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