by joelabrown | Mar 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
March 2014 A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects by S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College) “Religious history is incomplete if it ignores the sensing body, and the seemingly trivial things it confronts,” argues S. Brent Plate in this month’s Religion and...
by joelabrown | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
February 2014 Religions of Iran: Pool Theory as a Non-normative Approach by Richard Foltz (Concordia University, Centre for Iranian Studies) In Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz seeks to understand the diversity of Iranian religious...
by joelabrown | Jan 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
January 2014 The Sexuality of Christ in Byzantine Art and in Hypermodern Oblivion by Matthew J. Milliner (Wheaton College) Leo Steinberg’s controversial 1983 book, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, argued that Renaissance artists...
by joelabrown | Dec 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Encounters with a Homicidal Bath Demon: Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus by Allison L. Gray (University of Chicago) Abstract: An exciting episode from the 4th century Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus affords readers the opportunity to examine key literary...
by joelabrown | Nov 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Haunting Violence: Obeah and the Management of the Living and the Dead in Colonial Trinidad by Alexander Rocklin (University of Chicago Divinity School; Martin Marty Center Jr. Fellow, 2012-13) “This essay is an attempt to make sense of several scenes in the...
by joelabrown | Oct 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
October 2013 “To Every Prophet an Adversary”: Jewish Enmity in Islam by David Nirenberg (University of Chicago) In this study of the Qur’an and early Islamic tradition, David Nirenberg takes readers into “a world in which the claims of new...
by joelabrown | Sep 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
September 2013 Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God’s Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue by Ellen Amster (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) With invited responses by: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University); and Neil Kodesh (University of...
by joelabrown | Aug 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
How Does the Fixity of Print Become a Problem for Religious Identity? by Kathleen Lynch (Folger Shakespeare Library) With invited responses by: Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University); David D. Hall (Harvard University); and W. Clark Gilpin (University of...
by joelabrown | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Spirituality and Healing by Roger S. Gottlieb (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) With invited responses by: Christopher Chapple (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles); and Stephanie Kaza (University of Vermont). “Spirituality and Healing” is Chapter...
by joelabrown | May 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism by Michael Allen Gillespie (Duke University) With invited responses by: Bruce Gordon (Yale University); Evan Haefeli (Columbia University); Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin); and Eugene Webb (University of Washington)....
