Jacob Neusner (1932-2016), one of the world’s premier scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts, died earlier this month, on October 8, 2016. Neusner was the author or
From a New York Times “Letter of Recommendation” piece on the late Marshall Hodgson (1922–68) and his three-volume collection, The Venture of Islam, by Millions editor Lydia Kiesling: One
Our free e-book for October is Craig A. Monson’s Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy. Download
Introduction An excerpt from The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison *** The History of “Religion” In the section of his monumental Summa theologiae that
The impossibility of religious freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan In the last week the US Supreme Court has decided two religious freedom cases (Burwell
Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) was an art historian whose focus extended from the Renaissance to the modern, and who left a critical legacy on several generations
When it comes to American religious history, few books have caused as much debate as John Lardas Modern’s Secularism in Antebellum America. In the book, Modern
Saddened today to note the passing of Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013)—priest, sociologist, journalist, prolific critic, novelist, and philanthropist. Father Greeley (his preferred moniker) was a
Before We Loved the Buddha by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. *** According to a famous Chinese legend, in 60 CE (or thereabout), the Emperor Ming
Just prior to the Labor Day holiday, Eric L. Santner, Press author and Philip and Ida Romberg Professor of Modern Germanic Studies at the University