Landscapes of the Soul
MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...
top of page
All Content
Search
Aug 14, 2017
Shakespeare’s Bodies Onstage
ADHAAR NOOR DESAI | I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very funny when they read his plays, even after they’ve grown...
Aug 1, 2017
Is There Racism in Heaven?
STEPHEN S. BUSH | Nick Cave has said that in Until, his massive, elaborate, and provocative installation at MASS MoCA, he intends to pose...
Jul 17, 2017
Rethinking Sacred Space
LAURA MOFFATT | I’m becoming increasingly convinced that architectural history is the most inclusive of studies...
Jul 17, 2017
Imagining Pakistan: Religion at the Origins of Nationalism
SOHAIB I. KHAN | Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject of best-selling books...
Jun 21, 2017
Systematic Theology and Biblical Criticism
BRAD EAST | Should the Bible be read like any other book?...
Jun 20, 2017
Haunted Bodies: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Brown’s dirt is the red Virginia clay, which years ago stained everything in my life...
Jun 19, 2017
Identity and Commentary in the Sufi Tradition
NATHAN HOFER | One of the more difficult tasks facing historians of early Sufism is to disentangle its development as an identifiable...
Jun 7, 2017
The Qur’an Illuminated
YAEL RICE | In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that saw the GOP contender...
Jun 5, 2017
Beautiful and Meaningless
WILL THEISS | In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through the sixth circle of Hell...
May 23, 2017
Revisiting Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
THOMAS J. MILLAY | Any serious consideration of the story of Abraham and Isaac is bound to produce anxiety—perhaps even sleep deprivation...
May 8, 2017
Kinship with God: Indigenous Christianity in an Amazonian World
RYAN SCHRAM | For many years, Vilaça has conducted ethnographic research among Wari’, whose villages lie in reservations in the...
bottom of page