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Intersections: Interview with Rachel Wagner

December 17, 2012

By S. Brent Plate An audio interview with fellow Rachel Wagner about how she got from Blake to digital...

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Love, Magic and Holy Death

November 30, 2012

David Metcalfe talks to R. Andrew Chestnut about his latest, Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint; with...

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Famous Drownings in Literary History

November 26, 2012

An excerpt from a new book by Kevin Haworth, Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st Century Jewishness.

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Divine Intervention: American Faith in Foreign Policy

November 7, 2012

Gale Kenny reviews Andrew Preston's new book, "Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and...

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Unfit for Heaven and Earth

October 9, 2012

By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints...

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Man Without a Country: "The Myth of the Muslim Tide"

September 25, 2012

by Nora Connor His sociology is methodical, clear and convincing, but he’s bringing a slide-rule and a pocket protector...

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Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions

September 3, 2012

What does it mean to pursue, inhabit, or lead a valuable, ethical life in a secular age? Are we...

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Saint George, the Monstrous Saint

August 29, 2012

An excerpt from Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith (Unbridled Books, 228 pp.) by Colin...

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Let's Get Radical: a review of The Light In Her Eyes

July 13, 2012

by Rachel Riederer It’s difficult for me to conceive of the memorization of scripture as even a mildly progressive...

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Missed Opportunities: a review of "Arab Media"

July 5, 2012

by Narges Bajoghli It's true that mass media have been used (and still are, in some contexts) as a...

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More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"

June 25, 2012

by Abhimanyu Das The Church of England inhabits a unique place in this busy trafficking of religious stereotypes. They're...

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Cooking the Books: A Review of "The Revisionaries"

June 14, 2012

By Nathan Schradle The Revisionaries, a documentary about the Texas State Board of Education, debuted at this year’s Tribeca...

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Inventing My Religion

May 29, 2012

By Fred Folmer Shortly after finishing Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), a recent book by...

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Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

May 21, 2012

Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy By Timothy Byrnes. Georgetown University Press, 2001. 216 pp. by Frances...

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The World Before Her: Making Indian Women

April 23, 2012

A review of The World Before Her, now showing in the Tribeca Film Festival. by Natasha Raheja The opening sequence...

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Riot in the Cathedral

March 30, 2012

A review of The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics, by Irina Papkova. Oxford University Press, 2011. By Sean Guillory In late February,...

Intersections: Interview with Rachel Wagner

Love, Magic and Holy Death

Famous Drownings in Literary History

Divine Intervention: American Faith in Foreign Policy

Unfit for Heaven and Earth

Man Without a Country: "The Myth of the Muslim Tide"

Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions

Saint George, the Monstrous Saint

Let's Get Radical: a review of The Light In Her Eyes

Missed Opportunities: a review of "Arab Media"

More Tea, Vicar? A review of BBC's "Rev"

Cooking the Books: A Review of "The Revisionaries"

Inventing My Religion

Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy

The World Before Her: Making Indian Women

Riot in the Cathedral

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