The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which opened this past spring and will…
Robert Orsi
Robert Orsi is professor of religious studies and history at Northwestern University. His most recent book is History and Presence (Harvard 2016).
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The Angel Bruno bends close to the earth and asks…
October 18, 2017
I love Peggy Lee’s smoky voice, especially in the later years of her life, when the laughter that was audible…
The breaking-in of the gods
August 23, 2016
In the early pages of my recently published book, History and Presence (Belknap Harvard 2016), I describe something that happened…
Contending Modernities
November 17, 2010
On November 18-19, dozens of scholars, religious leaders, business people, and intellectuals will gather in New York for the public launch…
The Catholic heresy, again
June 9, 2010
The reason I am talking about Catholics here is because of the subtitle of Bender's book: Spirituality and the American…