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WHITNEY S. BODMAN | I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would like to elaborate on reader-response theory as a justifiable method in the study of the Qur’an...

JAMES HIGDON | When I started working on the book that would become The Cornbread Mafia, I never thought that I would be telling a story of God’s law versus Man’s law...

JOSHUA DUBLER | My project was initially slated to take place at New Jersey’s Rahway State Prison...

BRETT T. ROBINSON | Steve Jobs invited a number of lofty comparisons during his career...

NANCY THEBAUT | What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane from 1909 possibly have to do with one another?...

GUSTAVO A. RAMIREZ | Although the mural paintings of Burgos, Tamaulipas were known since many years ago, the first time that the National Institute of Anthropology and History...

SIMON RABINOVITCH | In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the Russian Museum of Ethnography...

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...

BRIAN STANLEY | Is the world becoming more secular?...

FERNANDE HÖLSCHER | Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon in Greek religion...

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...

GORAZD KOCIJANČIČ | At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a lecture in Jerusalem on negative theology...