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Love, Magic and Holy Death

November 30, 2012
David Metcalfe talks to R. Andrew Chestnut about his latest, Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint; with...
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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...
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Saint George, the Monstrous Saint

August 29, 2012
An excerpt from Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith (Unbridled Books, 228 pp.) by Colin...
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Inventing My Religion

May 29, 2012
By Fred Folmer Shortly after finishing Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (Ashgate, 2010), a recent book by...
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Riot in the Cathedral

March 30, 2012
  A review of The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics, by Irina Papkova. Oxford University Press, 2011. By Sean Guillory In late February,...
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Act of Seeing

May 28, 2011
From Genevieve Yue's review at Reverse Shot of Terrence Malick's new movie, Tree of Life: Cinematically, [Stan Brakhage's Yggdrasill:  Whose...
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Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Sharlet: Publishers Weekly reviews Revealer contributor Laurel Snyder‘s new edited volume, Half/Life: Jew-Ish Tales From Interfaith Homes.”‘Half’ is an interesting, incorrigible, perplexing...
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Revising Night

January 26, 2006
26 January 2006 Elie Wiesel and the Hazards of Holocaust Theology By Peter Manseau  Editors’ note: This essay was...
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The Last Revival

October 31, 2005
31 October 2005 By Michael Rose Following in what seems like a trend of long profiles of charismatic or...
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High Lonesome Gospel

August 17, 2005
17 August 2005 Raw-skinned and born again. By Jeff Sharlet Excerpted from Oxford American’s annual Southern music issue Let’s look at the...
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Generation Squared

January 25, 2005
25 January 2005 God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America By Naomi...

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