The Sexuality of Christ in Byzantine Art and in Hypermodern Oblivion
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...
Encounters with a Homicidal Bath Demon: Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus
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...
Haunting Violence: Obeah and the Management of the Living and the Dead in Colonial Trinidad
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 history...
“To Every Prophet an Adversary”: Jewish Enmity in Islam
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 revelation had to be...
Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God’s Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue
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...
How Does the Fixity of Print Become a Problem for Religious Identity?
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...
Spirituality and Healing
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 8 of Roger...
The Anti-Trinitarian Origins of Liberalism
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)....
Adopting the Fetish: War Memory and Uncanny Kinship in Modern Japan
Adopting the Fetish: War Memory and Uncanny Kinship in Modern Japan by Ellen Schattschneider (Brandeis University) With invited responses by: Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics); Robert A. Paul (Emory University). **Click here to see the images referred...
The Macondoization of the World: Global Environmental Governance and Christian Ethics
March 2013 The Macondoization of the World: Global Environmental Governance and Christian Ethics by Noah Toly (Wheaton College; Martin Marty Center Senior Fellow) With invited responses by: Roger S. Gottlieb (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); and Willis Jenkins (Yale...
Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Religious Conversion and Visual Correlation in Early Modern Central Africa
Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Religious Conversion and Visual Correlation in Early Modern Central Africa by Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago) With invited responses by: John Thornton (Boston University); and Robert Young (New York...
Medicalized Death as a Modus Vivendi
Medicalized Death as a Modus Vivendi by Michelle Harrington (University of Chicago; Martin Marty Center Fellow) With invited responses by: Lydia Dugdale (Yale University); Autumn Alcott Ridenour (Boston College); and Jeffrey Bishop (Saint Louis University).
