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- Master Protocols for USAID Social and Behavioral Change Research
  by Anna Harvey
- Master Protocols: A Tool for Increasing the Reliability of Behavioral Evidence
  by Anna Harvey
- Politics of Rest and Resilience: Indian Ocean Mangroves and Collaborative Research in the Pandemic
  by Chandana Anusha, Inês M. Raimundo and Serena Stein
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- Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers
  by Terry Halliday
- The rule of law never dies
  by Mark Fathi Massoud
- Conducts of revolt: Refusing a Napoleonic politics of religion
  by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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- Conflict and Peacebuilding in Northwest Nigeria: A Perspective on “The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara”
  by Hakeem Onapajo
- Reflections on the Challenges and Benefits of an Inter-Disciplinary PhD Study
  by Cherith Sanger
- Reflections on Christianity, Gender, Inequality, and Poverty in Zimbabwe
  by Ropafadzo Hove
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Book reviews

These original essays are based on a recent book, written by someone other than the author.

For God and Globe

Gene Zubovich·

May 19, 2016

In 1937, some of the most prominent and influential Protestant leaders in the United States travelled to Oxford for a…

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Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality

Rachel C. Schneider·

February 10, 2015

Do Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with…

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The Devil: A New Biography

Etienne Stockland·

November 24, 2014

A great deal of ink was spilled in the medieval and early modern period on the nature of demonic copulation.…

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Faith as an Option

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins·

November 6, 2014

Hans Joas’s Faith as an Option is primarily concerned with debunking two myths: first, the idea that modernization—advances in technology…

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Blood: A Critique of Christianity

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins·

July 15, 2014

The starting point for Gil Anidjar’s ambitious and daring new book, Blood: A Critique of Christianity, is that modern concepts…

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The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins·

January 9, 2014

The last decade has witnessed a veritable scholarly obsession with the subject of political theology: a multifaceted concept with varying…

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Anti-secularism

Hans Joas·

January 17, 2008

More than most other great systematic thinkers of our time, Jürgen Habermas has for decades consistently expressed his views on…

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