From Princeton University Press, historian Jerry Z. Muller has a new book on Capitalism and the Jews.
Jewish economic ambivalence
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Faith from the NIH
When Francis Collins was appointed director of the National Institutes of Health last year, he stepped down from leading the…
Can Islam in Europe be tamed?
At Bookforum, David Wallace-Wells reviews Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma.
John Haught’s theology of evolution
At the excellent evolution/creationism-junkie blog The Sensuous Curmudgeon, there's an announcement about Making Sense of Evolution, the new book by…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, due out spring 2011 from Columbia University Press and the SSRC,…
Orthodox by Design
Jeremy Stolow's Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution will be published next month by University of…
Immigration and Religion in America
At Religion in American History, Paul Harvey blogs about Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Persectives (NYU Press,…
Terry Eagleton: “Of men and monsters”
The New Statesmen has run an edited extract from Terry Eagleton's new book, On Evil (Yale University Press, 2010).
The Flight of the Intellectuals
In his recently published The Flight of the Intellectuals (Melville House Publishing, 2010), Paul Berman, writer in residence at New York…
The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam
Haroon Moghul reviews Sean Foley's new book: The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam.