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Essays on Religion in Human Evolution
Cambridge University Press is currently offering free access to the three essays in the review symposium on Robert Bellah's Religion…
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Robert Bellah, the eminent American sociologist whose latest book, Religion in Human Evolution, was the subject of a recent discussion series on this…
Islamophobia and antisemitism in Europe
The latest issue of the journal of the Jewish Museum Berlin features an article by Yasemin Shooman, a German historian, comparing anti-Muslim…
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