Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.

Articles in Philosophy & Religion tagged with Religion

Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

Travis Knoll

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Cornel West, Panashe Chigumadzi

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

Rachel Fraser

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?

Mark D. Jordan
An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.
Michael Jackson

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

Nadia Marzouki, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

Carlos Fraenkel

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

John Merrick
Anger’s history—along with the very fact that it has one—can shed light on the hypertrophied emotional climate of today.
David Konstan

The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.

Etan Nechin
Custom WordPress Development by Kevinleary.net

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster—with work by Jorie Graham, Ilya Kaminsky, Solmaz Sharif, Juan Felipe Herrera, and much more.

Newsletter subscribers get our latest essays, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

Poems-for-Political-Disaster-Twitter-1536x864

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster.