...hostilities of the Civil War, Travel & Leisure’s “Best City in America” several years running, and the self-described “Holy City” because of its many houses of worship. In 2015, in...
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What Europe?
...completed before the next crisis hit: that of mass displacement following the uprisings in Arab states in 2011, perilous and often ultimately deadly journeys to cross European borders, and—at best—uncoordinated...
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany: An introduction
...screamed from front-page headlines, the magazine covers of the most influential newsweeklies, the glossy covers and pages of illustrated magazines like Der Spiegel, and the bestseller lists in Germany and...
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
...and social critic. Benjamin Mays is perhaps best known as president of Morehouse College. All three later became important mentors to Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King, Jr. The...
Imperialists in cassock?

...churches’ attacks on homosexuals across east Africa. For all its popularity, the depiction is at best a caricature, hyperbolizing the agency of American evangelicals even as it downplays the agency...
I know I am, but what are you?
...social media feeds have been full of white people railing against “white people.” The Jewish case is weirder, and quite honestly, makes me a bit uncomfortable. Bouteldja hates Jews, she...
Attention and distraction, prayer and poetry
...the sundering of body and soul, the scattering of soul, body, and sins, with the “I”’s position amongst them at best uncertain, at worst in hell, as distractions from his...
Praying with one’s legs again
by Atalia Omer...one piece of the puzzle of white supremacy,” one activist proclaimed, echoing Judith Butler and other critical Jewish reflections. The same activist continued: “The best way to combat white supremacy...
A conversation with Yuri Slezkine
...be a cost. At best, the reader wonders where you stand; at worst, it leaves you open to easy dismissal. How does irony serve your aims as a historian? YS:...
Martha, Mary, Meister Eckhart: A mystical provocation to mothers as host bodies
...the best life is active or contemplative, of service or prayer, household or monastery. Meister Eckhart’s Sermons 2 and 86 on Martha and Mary of Bethany respond to the same...