Dionysus and the Tragedy of Greek Religion Scholarship
Albert Henrichs’s work on Dionysus is a case study in the complexities and tensions that characterize the relationship between the fields of religion and the classics. By Kate Whitaker
Category: History
Empire and Epistemicide
Precisely at the times when Jews and Christians were most experiencing the violence of the Roman Empire, some of Rome’s rulers were most vociferously claiming to bring and keep peace. By Annette Yoshiko Reed
Unlike Sheep to the Slaughter
To a remarkable extent, Jews refused to let themselves slide into hopeless apathy during the Holocaust By Melinda Mandelbaum Stein
On Waiting, Tending Life, and Comedy at God’s Scale
A conversation with Courtney Sender, MTS ’18, on her first novel, a braided story collection titled In Other Lifetimes: All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me. By Kevin Madigan
Prison Theology
Austin Reed’s antebellum memoir The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict subverts notions of incarceration as spiritually regenerative. By Klaus C. Yoder
The Karma of a Nation
An eastward journey of Japanese American Buddhism helps us to reimagine the story of American identity and confront legacies of anti-Asian violence. By Duncan Ryūken Williams
With Her Head Held High
Even after her imprisonment and torture, a Sikh woman relentlessly pursues justice for her father’s murder during the state-sanctioned 1984 violence. By Kalpana Jain
How Khmer Buddhists Reconstructed Identity and Community in the U.S.
Carol A. Mortland’s Cambodian Buddhism in the United States. By Chipamong Chowdhury
Her Sister’s Blouse
Jewish and Holocaust museums play a role in preserving and creating Jewish memory and in contributing to the development of communal identity. By Avril Alba
Putting a Face on the Six Million
Why this non-Jewish professor teaches about the Holocaust. By Kevin J. Madigan
Battles of Wills
Stalingrad and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. By Kevin Madigan
Enchantment and Disenchantment in the Evangelical Tradition
George Eliot is a telling example of someone who embraced evangelicalism’s message of love and forgiveness but was put off by the dogma. By David N. Hempton
Conduct Unbecoming, and Much Worse
Harry S. Stout’s Upon the Altar of the Nation. By Iain MacLean
A Mission to China Debriefed
Eric Reinders’s Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. By Patrick Provost-Smith
The Politics of Memory
Archaeologies of the Greek Past by Susan Alcock and Martyrdom and Memory by Elizabeth Castelli. By Laura Nasrallah
