Review

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...

Celebrity Relics

December 20, 2011
From "On the Religious Roots of Celebrity Worship" at Philly.com (Philadephia Inquirer/Daily News): "There's a kind of cultural fascination...

Cities and the Dead

October 5, 2010
Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly.  From "Necropolis": Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power...

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