...already depleted by a hectic and tumultuous lifestyle. Research suggests that spirituality “works” best—i.e., nurtures meaning, personal growth, and concern for others—when it involves a commitment to some transcendent source...
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On disciplines and non-knowing: A reply to Agnes Callard
...a profound unknowing about the conditions that make possible our sitting together in a classroom under the auspices of a field we call religious studies. And I believe the best...
A liturgy of the soul

...praxis are articulated in relation to God,” on a “transcendental axis” where the “soul/self becomes the addressee of divine discourse.” This is perhaps best glimpsed through the imaginal world. In...
Refashioning gender and modern visual theology
...and of themselves, are at best, petty distractions, and at worst, sources of temptation through which Satan can awake carnal appetites that threaten the soul’s eternal salvation. On the other...
Future fanatics of world literature?

...best read as indices to their author’s national context; instead, literary texts and their circulation and reception constitute a discourse in which a particular idea of the literary emerges. While...
Bolshevism as secular religion? A discussion of The House of Government
...of history. Any resemblance to fictional characters, dead or alive, is entirely coincidental.” One moral of this book for scholars of religion and secularism is that one had best approach...
Ending complicities, revolutionizing companionships
...that “Hitler was nothing but the best student” of republican imperialism. Second, she finds him in her own experiences when she was Anne Frank’s age. She argues that she met...
On the evolution and impact of anti-Muslim polemics

Nadia Marzouki’s Islam: An American Religion is one of the most exciting books I have read on Islam in the United States recently. It is, in my opinion, the best...
Bolshevism, Orthodoxy, and secularization in Russia
...best analyzed through historians’ and sociologists’ insights into the phenomenon of millenarian religious sectarianism. Studying the early Bolsheviks and their families at home in the House of Government—through their diaries,...
space, place
by Deonnie Moodie...memory. It is their mother’s home—full and even chaotic at times, yet permeated by the love and grace she has bestowed upon them for countless lifetimes. For the Indian courts,...