Women's Bodies, Mediating the Revolution

January 12, 2012
From Khaled Fahmy's article, "Women, Revolution, and Army" in the Egyptian Independent: Ibrahim [Samira Ibrahim, Egyptian woman who successfully...

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...

Waiting for Consent

December 19, 2011
From Rev. Dr. Maria LaSala's post, "Mary's Choice: What the Annunciation Story Tells Us About Moral Agency": The angel...

This is Manhood

November 22, 2011
A excerpt of the prayer delivered by coach Ron Brown to the Penn State football team on November 12th,...

Religious Ghettoization of Egypt

November 18, 2011
From Marc Michael's "Is liberalism killing the copts?" at Al Jazeera: Imperial liberalism not only reinforced lines of fracture...

What Are Religious Human Rights?

November 16, 2011
Nora Connor:  Water cooler talk around The Revealer offices keeps circling back to human rights these days (yes, we...

OWS Reads

November 10, 2011
Our founding editor, Jeff Sharlet, has two new articles out on the Occupy Movement:  at Bookforum and at...

Dangerous Temptations

November 9, 2011
From Nidhal Guessoum's "New Media and Islam" at HuffPo: Similarly, the Los Angeles Times recently related the strong reactions expressed by...

Outer Phenomenon and Inner Journey

October 25, 2011
A review of David Halperin's Journal of a UFO Investigator (Viking, 2011) By David Metcalfe Riddles chased mysteries, were chased by enigmas,...

Virtues of Engagement

October 20, 2011
An excerpt from Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches, a new book by Omri Elisha. There...

Our Monsters, Ourselves

October 17, 2011
A review of W. Scott Poole's Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting...

Occupy Writers

October 14, 2011
The Revealer founder Jeff Sharlet hustled up a list of writers who support the Occupy movement on Wall Street...

Playing Religion

October 3, 2011
From Peter Manseau's review at Bookforum of Robert Bellah's new book, Religion in Human Evolution: Bellah searches for...

Saving Addicts

September 25, 2011
From "Is Addiction Really a Disease?  A Challenge to Twelve-Step Programs," by Nicholas Grant Boeving at Tikkun: Let me...

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