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Beyond the Pineapple Tract: Mapping Utopian Los Angeles
Bonnie Johnson explores LA’s utopian past and argues for a utopian future.
Religion
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal
Intercultural Influences: On German Literature and Islam
Benjamin Balint reviews Navid Kermani’s “Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities.”
The Buddhist Challenge
Dan Arnold on Jay L. Garfield's "Engaging Buddhism."
Give Me Love
Scott Korb on Marilynne Robinson and learning to shrink the gap.
Mircea Eliade: Eponym of the Humanities?
Bryan Rennie reassesses the legacy of Romanian novelist and religious philosopher Mircea Eliade.
A God Who Let Us Prove His Existence Would Be An Idol: Archie Rand, “The 613,” and the Slippery, Vexing, Kafkaesque Problem Of the Jewish Visual Imagination
Are murals kosher in Brooklyn? Robert Anthony Siegel talks to Archie Rand to find out.
Travels with the (Not So) Intrepid Mr. D’Arcy: A Persian Story
Daniel Newman on Nile Green's "The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London."
Sermonizing in Pearls: Phyllis Schlafly and the Women’s History of the Religious Right
Neil J. Young examines the role of Phyllis Schlafly in modeling the ecumenical potential of the Religious Right.
Normative Commitments: A Philosophical Vision for the Study of Religion
Raphael Magarik considers “Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion — and Vice Versa” by Thomas A. Lewis.
Civil Religion for a Diverse Nation
John T. McGreevy on "The Origins of American Religious Nationalism" by Sam Haselby.
Oneida: The Christian Utopia Where Contraception Was King
Ellen Wayland-Smith examines her ancestors' history in the Oneida Community, a 19th-century religious commune.
Noise. Church. Flesh.: Or, For Coltrane Church, For Pulse
How is the production of noise a practice of religion — and of race?
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