In his first book, published a the ripe age of 26, Nietzsche observed that “life is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.” He never retreated from that bold pronouncement, and scholars have ...

A free yoga event in New York City’s Bryant Park, 2018. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images) Last May, the writer Tara Isabella Burton published a piece in the New York Times Sunday Review about ...

In his new book, religious studies scholar Philip S. Francis uses personal stories from young evangelicals to explore how one’s experiences with art can dramatically reorient Christian beliefs and ...

The Journal of the American Academy of Religion is generally considered to be the top academic journal in the field of religious studies. Now in volume 68 and with a circulation of over 10,000, this ...

Context doesn’t count for everything, but it can count for a lot: witness The Ages of Mankind: Time to Hope Context doesn’t count for everything, but it can count for a lot: witness The Ages of ...

Promey (Sensational Religion), a professor of religion at Yale, delivers an ambitious exploration of the public nature of religion in America. Locating an overlap between Christianity and capitalism, ...

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Victorian Poetry examines the poetry of the Victorian Period (1830-1914) from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural ...

"What I am interested in," wrote Patrick White, who would have received a letter from the Queen this week, "is the relationship between the blundering human being and God." Religion is close to the ...