This volume completes an ambitious two-part study of monotheism in Western culture that began with One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism (Princeton University Press, 2001). As with the ...

Most of us have grown up with the idea that there are three forms of monotheism: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, each one of them being a quite monolithic, unified, self-consistent system. But that ...

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) In the wake of Said’s landmark work, Orientalism (Said 1979), scholars have been widely concerned with countering the ...

In a recent essay for The Atlantic, David Wolpe, a rabbi and visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, sizes up former president and insurrectionist Donald Trump as follows: “the lavishness of his ...

Lately these pages have seen some comments about how worthless and unnecessary, or even harmful, religion is. I would have to agree with that statement when it comes to almost all religions prior to ...

Bruce posted yesterday about some Christians who objected to a Hindu prayer opening the U.S. Senate session. Here's a nugget of explanation from the American Family Association: The AFA is headed by ...