More than any other book I have read recently, Stefania Pandolfo’s Knot of the Soul made me ask myself time…
Knot of the Soul: Voices, textures, resonances
religion
Not in the body
Does circumcision mark religious belonging onto a male body? And if so, is this marking legitimate, especially in the case…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Agnostic front of the aging boomer
Remember when it rained frogs? Unless you were in Egypt during the second plague, the way you would likely remember…
Let’s keep dancing
There is more here to dancing than meets the eye. As Lee’s reversal tells, dancing holds her here, on this…
The shapeless things to come
Can fiction offer a viable, even preferable alternative to history? Good novelists and historians both recognize the objective limits of…
Prayer to no end
Sightings of a bridge between philosophy and religion by way of cognitive technē are among this book’s most exciting contributions.…
Political Islam and emancipatory politics
Does it matter if you are Muslim? Lately it seems to matter very much. By drawing our attention to the…
Irreligion on its own terms
Are there meaningful conceptual trajectories that can be traced between ancient Greco-Roman atomism, Spinozan monism, Humean empiricism, Marxian materialism, and…
Don’t play that song, Nathan Scott
I welcome Spirit in the Dark for the seriousness with which it opens new prospects for the study of religion and literature…