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(Excerpt) How to be a Muslim: An American Story

December 21, 2017Haroon Moghul

An excerpt from How to Be a Muslim: An American Story by Haroon Moghul. With an introduction by the...

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Seems like Straw to Me: On Garry Gutting’s Talking God

October 17, 2017

Ed Simon reviews Talking God: Philosophers on Belief by Gary Gutting

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Radix Redux: Characterizing American Religious Radicalism

October 17, 2017

Geoffrey Pollick reviews American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice by Albert J....

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(Excerpt) Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces

October 17, 2017

An excerpt from Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces by Kelly J. Baker. With an introduction by the author.

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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

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P/partition: Urvashi Butalia's Volume of Essays in Lower Case

September 8, 2017

Shruti Devgan reviews Partition: The Long Shadow edited by Urvashi Butalia.

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(Excerpt) Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

September 8, 2017

An excerpt from Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age by Jeffrey Shandler. With an introduction by the author.

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Stonewall Jackson and Fundamentalism's Mythic Past

August 22, 2017

Jeff Sharlet presents an excerpt from his 2008 book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American...

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(Excerpt) Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity

July 25, 2017

An excerpt from Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity by John...

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(Excerpt) Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy

April 4, 2017

An excerpt from Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy (Stanford University Press, 2016) by Rosemary...

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(Excerpt) God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration

March 8, 2017

Excerpt from God in Captivity The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Tanya...

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Moral Luck and the Fantasy of Fascism

February 9, 2017

Liane Carlson on dreams of moral clarity and why we need them.

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Brokenheartlands: Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land

December 7, 2016

Patrick Blanchfield reviews Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild.

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“Don’t Leave Me”: Resisting, Reconfiguring, and Representing Identity in Jill Soloway’s "Transparent"

December 7, 2016

Geoffrey Pollick explores modes and moments of disidentification in season three of “Transparent”

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The Savior’s Friends: On Tom Bissell’s Apostle

October 4, 2016

Ed Simon reviews Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell

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Of Rosaries and Revenge: Anticolonial Imaginations of The Legend of Tarzan

August 31, 2016

"The Legend of Tarzan," a much-hyped reboot of the popular relic of Western colonialism, suffers from its attempt to...

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Losing Its Religion? Orange Is the New Black’s Postsecular Spiritual Turn

July 1, 2016

Geoffrey Pollick watches religion move through the background of Orange is the New Black's fourth season.

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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.

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Review: Bodies of Song

June 6, 2016

Patton Burchett reviews Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India by Linda Hess.

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Hail, Coen! Finding Religion in the Films of Joel & Ethan Coen

May 2, 2016

Geoffrey Pollick reviews a book about the Coen brothers alongside their new movie, Hail, Caesar!.

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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.

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The Great God Pan Still Lives

January 25, 2016

Ed Simon reviews Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell.

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Rituals of Transformation in Jill Soloway’s "Transparent"

January 25, 2016Geoffrey Pollick

Geoffrey Pollick analyzes the use of ritual in Jill Soloway's television show "Transparent."

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Review: Considering Hate

December 22, 2015

Patrick Blanchfield reviews Considering Hate by Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski

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(Excerpt) How to be a Muslim: An American Story

Seems like Straw to Me: On Garry Gutting’s Talking God

Radix Redux: Characterizing American Religious Radicalism

(Excerpt) Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces

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

P/partition: Urvashi Butalia's Volume of Essays in Lower Case

(Excerpt) Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Stonewall Jackson and Fundamentalism's Mythic Past

(Excerpt) Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity

(Excerpt) Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy

(Excerpt) God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Moral Luck and the Fantasy of Fascism

Brokenheartlands: Arlie Russell Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land

“Don’t Leave Me”: Resisting, Reconfiguring, and Representing Identity in Jill Soloway’s "Transparent"

The Savior’s Friends: On Tom Bissell’s Apostle

Of Rosaries and Revenge: Anticolonial Imaginations of The Legend of Tarzan

Losing Its Religion? Orange Is the New Black’s Postsecular Spiritual Turn

Excerpt: Classifying Christians by Todd S. Berzon

Review: Bodies of Song

Hail, Coen! Finding Religion in the Films of Joel & Ethan Coen

Review: The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison

The Great God Pan Still Lives

Rituals of Transformation in Jill Soloway’s "Transparent"

Review: Considering Hate

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