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Perspective

For We Were Strangers: Trans Refugees and Moral Panics

October 6, 2022Gillian Frank

What trans Americans, fleeing oppressive state laws, share with earlier queer and abortion-seeking migrants – and what we can...

Conversation

Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics

August 9, 2019Brett Krutzsch, Kali Handelman

Revealer Editor, Kali Handelman, interviews Brett Krutzsch about his new book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the...

Excerpt

The Crusades: An Epitome

May 29, 2019Susanna Throop

An excerpt from The Crusades: An Epitome with an introduction by the author

Feature

Make Paradise Great Again; or, the Most Subtle of the Beasts

May 29, 2019Ed Simon

Where paradises fall, so shall serpents be found: Snakes as awkward symbols of American defiance.

Feature

People Need Other People to Become People, or: How Cynicism is Hurting the Left

November 16, 2018Daniel Joslyn

The present and past of leftist metaphysics

Feature

Fate on Hold: Jewish Collectors at War

September 10, 2018James Adam Redfield

What do we save? And for whom?

In the News

In the News: Heavenly Bodies, Robot Funerals, and Kanye

May 23, 2018Kali Handelman

A roundup of recent religion writing

Review

Excursions in Unbelief: Retrieving Religion’s “Antitype” in U.S. History

September 8, 2017

Geoffrey Pollick reviews Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Field Note

Love in the Time of Scholarship

May 3, 2017

Anand Venkatkrishnans's Field Note on the hidden heart of scholarship.

In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting

November 7, 2016

A round-up of recent religion news.

Excerpt, Review

Excerpt: Classifying Christians by Todd S. Berzon

June 6, 2016

An excerpt from Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by Todd S. Berzon.

Review

Review: The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison

February 19, 2016

Cara Rock-Singer reviews The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison.

Review

How Not To Do What We Always Do

October 19, 2015

Donovan O. Schaefer reviews Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression by Hector A. Garcia.

Review

Review: Religion, Science, and Empire

September 25, 2015

Anand Venkatkrishnan reviews Religion, Science, and Empire by Peter Gottschalk.

In the News: Racism, Ramadan, Romanian Witches and more!

June 25, 2015

A round-up of the week's religion news.

Trust Black Women: God is Change

June 24, 2015

The fourth installment in a series of articles that Laura McTighe is writing for The Revealer about issues at...

Feature

The Last Twentieth Century Book Club: Sulamith Ish-Kishor

August 13, 2014

"The Last Twentieth Century Book Club" is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly.

In the News: Prisons Churches, Museums, and, of course, Hobby Lobby

July 9, 2014

A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.

Mistreating History

May 28, 2010

The Reformed Reader quotes Carl Trueman's 2008 book, The Minority Report, on the two "disempowering" ways that...

Normal predicaments of human divinity

March 4, 2010

Ann Neumann: Haaretz interviews Revealer contributing editor Scott Korb about his new book, “Life in Year One: What the...

"Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale"

December 9, 2003

Such is any attempt to talk about the whole of American history without talking about Jonathan Edwards, according to historian George...

Does History have Meaning?

November 12, 2003

The media elite answer. The Revealer reports. You decide! By Jeff Sharlet Does history have meaning? And if so, what does...

For We Were Strangers: Trans Refugees and Moral Panics

Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics

The Crusades: An Epitome

Make Paradise Great Again; or, the Most Subtle of the Beasts

People Need Other People to Become People, or: How Cynicism is Hurting the Left

Fate on Hold: Jewish Collectors at War

In the News: Heavenly Bodies, Robot Funerals, and Kanye

Excursions in Unbelief: Retrieving Religion’s “Antitype” in U.S. History

Love in the Time of Scholarship

In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting

Excerpt: Classifying Christians by Todd S. Berzon

Review: The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison

How Not To Do What We Always Do

Review: Religion, Science, and Empire

In the News: Racism, Ramadan, Romanian Witches and more!

Trust Black Women: God is Change

The Last Twentieth Century Book Club: Sulamith Ish-Kishor

In the News: Prisons Churches, Museums, and, of course, Hobby Lobby

Mistreating History

Normal predicaments of human divinity

"Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale"

Does History have Meaning?

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