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The author looks over the ruins of Ramat Rahel near Jerusalem. He argues it was the site of an ancient Assyrian imperial citadel whose destruction was celebrated in Isaiah 24-27
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The fundamental concern of Romanticism, which brought about its inception, determined its development, and set its end, was the need to create a new language for religion. One of the main motivations behind writing this study is to illustrate that early German Romanticism, the first of the Romantic movements, was more than a response to […]
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‘Why do you want to study India’s State-run Media?’ This question was frequently posed to me by my friends and fellow academics. For some broadcasting if not passé, is quite a mouthful, and hard to pronounce. ‘Why not study the increasing presence and uses of the internet, mobile phones, and associated digital media forms in […]
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While working on a book on the religious influences on Modern Art (Modern Art and the Life of a Culture [2016] co-author, Jonathan Anderson), I was struck by the widening scope of motifs sparking aesthetic treatment in the modern period. Where did this impulse come from? How did artists turn from the narrow range of […]
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Increasingly, Christian pacifists are recognizing the need to attend to the violence of climate change. Thanks to books like Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor and Kevin O’Brien’s The Violence of Climate Change, the links between climate change and violence are becoming more apparent and the need to respond to climate-shaped […]
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Context matters. Probably no historian can write a shorter sentence that defends our craft. This is true whether we speak in terms of politics, or about literature, or the law, or even the hard sciences. (Experiments work very differently in a vacuum than in the open air of one’s kitchen.) Knowing the world in which […]
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Gather everything that we humans, religious and nonreligious, have ever done to satisfy ourselves about transcendent things under this label: the religion project. Then ask yourself whether the effort has reached maturity. In Religion After Science, I argue that the correct answer is No. The religion project is instead hugely underdeveloped. Take what religious practices […]
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When Attalus III died, Aristonicus seized the throne and called himself Eumenes III. Slow to claim their rights under Attalus’ will, the Romans moved in, years later, and―at the second try―defeated Aristonicus. They took the parts of the Attalid kingdom they liked, and ignored the rest. In the neglected back-blocks of Asia over the following […]
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