Books
Medicine’s Unique Ways of Knowing
A Q&A with Janet Gyatso on Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. By Wendy McDowell
Buddhist Nuns, Past and Present
Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women, translated by Charles Hallisey, and Christine Toomey’s In Search of Buddha’s Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads. By Martine Batchelor
The Spiritual Currents of Santería
An Interview with Aisha Beliso-De Jesús. By Will Morningstar
What Contributes to Moral Progress?
Michael Shermer’s The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Reason and Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. By Bradley Shingleton
Bhakti across the Colonial Divide
A review of John Stratton Hawley’s A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. By Anne Monius
The Gospel of Guantánamo
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary recounts the worst of American torture while offering a compelling vision of faith and reconciliation. By Marisa Egerstrom
Islamic Education and the Body
Rudolph T. Ware III’s The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa. By Ousmane Oumar Kane
Performing World Missions in 1911
Erin L. Hasinoff’s Faith in Objects: American Missionary Expositions in the Early Twentieth Century. By Dana L. Robert
Artists Make Good Theologians
Longing for Mary and for the unsayable in the poetry of Mary Szybist and the art of Hayley Barker. By Sarah Sentilles
Ronald Dworkin’s Onto-Theology
The onto-theological drive in Ronald Dworkin’s final book, Religion without God. By Ronald E. Osborn
