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Review

Destruction on Display: The Politics of Preservation

August 9, 2019Raha Rafii

A review of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's exhibition, “Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories from...

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...

Feature

Hemophilology

August 9, 2019Anand Venkatkrishnan

The hemophilologist is a kind of secular witness, offering an account of truth, pain, sensitivity, and care, all at...

Feature

What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene?

August 9, 2019Liane Carlson

Thinking is communal and our community is collapsing.

Excerpt

The Crusades: An Epitome

May 29, 2019Susanna Throop

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

Feature

Abusing Religion: Race, Islam, and Not Without My Daughter

May 29, 2019Megan Goodwin

The second installment in a three-part series about stories of abuse in minority religious communities and how they have...

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.

Review

Charcoal in an Empty Room: On Mary Beard’s How We Look Now

April 26, 2019Ed Simon

Iconoclasm can be a method of radical critique

Feature

Religious Freedom, Weapon of Choice

April 26, 2019Jolyon Baraka Thomas

Rethinking American assumptions about liberty and history.

Feature

Sorkin Delenda Est

April 26, 2019Jon Greenway

It's time to give up our faith in centrist liberalism and cast down our West Wing idols.

Field Note

The Notre-Dame Fire and France’s National Reconstruction Project

April 26, 2019Elayne Oliphant

Will repairing Notre Dame reinforce the inequality it has long-represented?

Excerpt

Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid

March 20, 2019Heather D. Curtis

An excerpt from Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid with an introduction by the author

Feature

On Good Government & Good Girls: How the Museum of the Bible's Founding Family Turned Themselves into Bible Experts

March 20, 2019Jill Hicks-Keeton, Cavan Conannon

They bought artifacts. They bought a building. What the Green family bought ultimately was expertise.

Feature

Totem and Tattoo: Is forgiveness an act of the will or of the body?

March 20, 2019Liane Carlson

Conversations about forgiveness are empty debate unless we talk about the body.

Column

Political Feelings: Suffer the Children

March 20, 2019Patrick Blanchfield

Why the charge of child sacrifice thrives in our contemporary discourse.

Conversation

Reason: A Conversation with Anand Patwardhan

February 20, 2019Leela Khanna, Anand Patwardhan

How Hindu nationalism is threatening Indian democracy

Conversation

Hard to Love: A conversation with Briallen Hopper

February 20, 2019Briallen Hopper, Kali Handelman

Revealer Editor, Kali Handelman, interviews Briallen Hopper about her new book Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions

Conversation

Sparking Joy: Religion, Representation & Marie Kondo

February 20, 2019Tara Fickle, Andrew Way Leong, Grace En-Yi Ting

A roundtable about what's really going on — and what's at stake — in Tidying Up

Review

Henry David Thoreau: Saint of the Environmental Movement?

February 20, 2019Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Two new biographies emphasize the importance of religion in Thoreau’s life and work.

Feature

RIP: Public Funerary Rituals for American Celebrities in Turkey

February 20, 2019Ilker Hepkaner

Why are people in Turkey memorializing Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson?

Feature

Abusing Religion: Polygyny, Mormonisms, and Under the Banner of Heaven

February 20, 2019Megan Goodwin

The first installment in a three-part series about stories of abuse in minority religious communities and how they have...

In the News

In the News: Lots of bad and a bit of good

December 20, 2018Kali Handelman

A roundup of recent religion writing

Excerpt

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

December 20, 2018Ed Simon

An excerpt from America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion with an introduction by the author

Review

"Blessed are those who have not seen": Image and belief in Jonas Bendiksen’s The Last Testament

December 20, 2018Jason Bruner

On the disappointment of seeing and (not) believing

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Destruction on Display: The Politics of Preservation

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

Hemophilology

What is Called Thinking in the Anthropocene?

The Crusades: An Epitome

Abusing Religion: Race, Islam, and Not Without My Daughter

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

Charcoal in an Empty Room: On Mary Beard’s How We Look Now

Religious Freedom, Weapon of Choice

Sorkin Delenda Est

The Notre-Dame Fire and France’s National Reconstruction Project

Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid

On Good Government & Good Girls: How the Museum of the Bible's Founding Family Turned Themselves into Bible Experts

Totem and Tattoo: Is forgiveness an act of the will or of the body?

Political Feelings: Suffer the Children

Reason: A Conversation with Anand Patwardhan

Hard to Love: A conversation with Briallen Hopper

Sparking Joy: Religion, Representation & Marie Kondo

Henry David Thoreau: Saint of the Environmental Movement?

RIP: Public Funerary Rituals for American Celebrities in Turkey

Abusing Religion: Polygyny, Mormonisms, and Under the Banner of Heaven

In the News: Lots of bad and a bit of good

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion

"Blessed are those who have not seen": Image and belief in Jonas Bendiksen’s The Last Testament

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