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October 2009
by Andre C. Willis
With an invited response by Corey D. B. Walker (Brown University)
September 2009
Eating, Feeding, and Flesh: Food in Victorian Spiritualsim
by Marlene Tromp
With invited responses by Gail Turley Houston (University of New Mexico) and Daniel Sack (University of Chicago)
August 2009
Summer Hiatus
July 2009
by Jacqueline Bussie
With invited responses by John Howell (University of Chicago), Cooper Harriss (University of Chicago), Joseph Winters (Princeton University), and Zhange Ni (Virginia Tech)
June 2009
Sacred Property: Searching for Value in the 9/11 Rubble
by Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
With invited responses by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (University at Buffalo), Kathryn Lofton (Visiting Fellow, Princeton University), Kristen Tobey (PhD candidate, University of Chicago), and Jeremy Biles (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
May 2009
Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies
by Richard Fox
With invited responses by Stewart Hoover (University of Colorado), Ghada Hashem Talhami (Lake Forest College), Mark Hobart (University of London), and Kathleen Moore (University of California, Santa Barbara)
April 2009
Oprah: Gospel of an Icon
by Kathryn Lofton
With invited responses by Daniel Sack (University of Chicago), Kerry Ferris (Northern Illinois University), Gary Laderman (Emory University), Aaron Jaffe (University of Louisville), and Jane Iwamura (University of Southern California)
March 2009
Theological Cartography and the Arboreal Imagination in Israel-Palestine
by Alain Epp Weaver
With invited responses by David Blakewell Burrell, S.C.S. (Notre Dame University), Amahl Bishara (Tufts University), and Loren Lybarger (Ohio University)
February 2009
The Virtual Rebbe
by Jeffrey Shandler
With invited responses by Sarah Imhoff (University of Chicago), Ellen Koskoff (University of Rochester), and Faye Ginsburg (New York University)
January 2009
The Capability of Play
by Jeffrey Irving Israel
With invited responses by Sarah Hammerschlag (Williams College), Barbra Barnett (PhD candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School), and Jal Mehta (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
December 2008
The Reification of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy: The Devil in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
by Stephen Meredith
With invited responses by Susan McReynolds Oddo (Northwestern University), Robert Bird (University of Chicago), and Ralph C Wood (Baylor University)
November 2008
Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice
by Jean-Luc Marion
With invited responses by Slavoj Zizek (The European Graduate School), Jeremy Biles, and Christina Gschwandtner (University of Scranton)
October 2008
The Enchantments of Secular Belief
by Danilyn Rutherford
With invited responses by Malika Zeghal (University of Chicago), W. Clark Gilpin (University of Chicago), and Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley)
September 2008
Secularism, Religious Renaissance, and Social Conflict in Asia
by Richard Madsen
With invited responses by Hong You (University of Chicago), Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore), and Robert Weller (Boston University)
June 2008
The Altar and the Screen: Filmmaking and Worldmaking
by S. Brent Plate
With invited responses by Crystal Downing (Messiah College), Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago), Robert Johnston (Fuller Theological Seminary), and William Paden (University of Vermont)
May 2008
More than a Mere Contract: Marriage as Contract and Covenant in Law and Theology
by John Witte, Jr.
With invited responses by Brian Bix (University of Minnesota), Don Browning (University of Chicago), Christine Hayes (Yale University), David Novak (University of Toronto), and Charles Reid, Jr. (University of St. Thomas)
April 2008
What Athens Has to Do with Jerusalem: Location and the Origin of Ethics
by William Schweiker
With invited responses by Douglas Anderson (Loyola University), William Burrows (Orbis Books), Terry Clark (University of Chicago), Arthur E. Farnsley II (IUPUI), and Rev. Laura Sumner Truax (LaSalle Street Church)
March 2008
The Last Prophet: Spinoza and the Political Theology of Moses Hess
by Jerome Copulsky
With invited responses by Rabbi Shai Held (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Leah Hochman (University of Florida), Jeffrey Israel (University of Chicago), and Ben Sax (University of Chicago)
February 2008
The Preacher in the Text: Zora Neale Hurston and the Homiletics of Literature
by M. Cooper Harriss
With invited responses by Kimberly Connor (University of San Francisco), Dolan Hubbard (Morgan State University), Carolyn Medine (University of Georgia), and Teresa Stricklen (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
January 2008
Agape, Special Relations, and the Global Care Crisis:
Challenging a “Two-Track” Understanding of the Obligations of Christian Love
by Sandra Sullivan Dunbar
With formal responses by Gloria H. Albrecht (University of Detroit Mercy) and Peter Meilaender (Houghton College)
December 2007
The Gospel of Freedom, or Another Gospel?
Augustinian Reflections on American Foreign Policy
by James K.A. Smith
With formal responses by Eric Gregory (Princeton University), D. C. Schindler (Villanova University), Paul Williams (Regent College)
November 2007
Religion and Museums on the National Mall
by Elizabeth McKeown
With formal responses by Michael Berenbaum (The Berenbaum Group), Alison Landsberg (George Mason University), and Ed Linenthal (Indiana University)
October 2007
Beleaguered Success: How Korean Evangelicalism Fared In The 1990s
by Timothy S. Lee
With formal responses by Daniel Bays, Kelly H. Chong, Hyojae Lee, Paul C. H. Lim, and Elizabeth Underwood
September 2007
In Search of the Common Good: The Catholic Roots Of American Liberalism
by Lew Daly
With formal responses by Joseph Bottum, Richard W. Garnett, and Thomas Zebrowski
June 2007
Christian Responses to Vietnam: The Organization of Dissent
by Mark G. Toulouse
With formal responses by Mark Hulsether and Eugene McCarraher
May 2007
The Desire to Acquire:
Or, Why Shopping Malls Are Sites of Religious Violence
by Jon Pahl
With formal responses by Peter Childs, James Farrell, Vincent Miller, and James Wellman
April 2007
From Altered States to Altered Categories (and Back Again):
Academic Method and the Human Potential Movement
by Jeffrey J. Kripal
With formal responses by Stephen Fredman and Robert Fuller
March 2007
Secularism: Religious, Irreligious, and Areligious
by W. Clark Gilpin
With formal responses by John Schmalzbauer and Kristen Tobey
February 2007
The Earth Charter as a New Covenant for Democracy
by J. Ronald Engel
With formal responses by Klaus Bosselmann, Lois Livezey, Paul Heltne, Stephen Rowe, and Laura Westra
January 2007
From Artaxerxes to Abu Ghraib: On Religion and the Pornography of Imperial Violence
by Bruce Lincoln
With a formal response by Amy Kaplan
December 2006
War as Worship, Worship as War
by Michael Sells
With formal responses by Ahmed M. Rehab
November 2006
Justification and Truth, Relativism and Pragmatism:
Reflections on Indian Philosophy and its Lessons for Religious Studies
by Daniel A. Arnold
With formal responses by Michael Kremer and Ronney Mourad
October 2006
Improvisation And Ethics:
Improvising Music, Improvising Ethics
by Daniel Groll, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Carl Joakim Gagnon, Eric Lewis, Brian Soucek, and John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
September 2006
Learning Religion at the Vineyard:
Prayer, Discernment and Participation in the Divine
by Tanya Luhrmann, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Heather Curtis, Joel Robbins, Richard A. Rosengarten, and Angela Tarango
June 2006
Religious Identities of Latin American Immigrants in Chicago:
Preliminary Findings from Field Research
by Andrea Althoff, Senior Fellow, Martin Marty Center
With formal responses by Martin Marty, Peter Versteeg, and R. Stephen Warner
May 2006
How Biblical is the Christian Right?
by Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago
With a formal response by Randall Balmer
April 2006
Human Rights and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
by Joseph Prabhu, Senior Fellow, The Martin Marty Center
With formal responses by Richard Shweder and Martin E. Marty
March 2006
Trading Faces: A Case Study in the Science of Identity, Aesthetics, Ethics
Selected essays from a roundtable discussion on tissue transplantation by Naomi Beck, Brian Soucek, and William Schweiker
With formal responses by Jeremy Biles and Geoffrey Rees
February 2006
Many Gods, Many Paths: Hinduism and Religious Diversity
by Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago)
With formal responses by Gurcharan Das and Damodar Prabhu
January 2006
The Widening Gap: Economic Inequality as a Religious Issue
by Franklin I. Gamwell (University of Chicago)
With a formal response by Bruce Rittenhouse (University of Chicago)
November/December 2005
Eagle of Power, Raven of Guilt: Conversations with Langdon Gilkey
by Jeff B. Pool (Berea College)
With a formal response by Kyle Pasewark
September/October 2005
Intelligent Design and Evolution in Conflict
With Essays by Darren M. Henson, Richard A. Rosengarten, and Walter H. Mees, Jr.
May 2005
Red Medicine, Blue Medicine: Pluralism and the Future of Healthcare
by Farr A. Curlin (University of Chicago) and Daniel E. Hall (Duke University, University of Pittsburgh)
With formal responses by Jean Bethke Elshtain and W. Clark Gilpin
April 2005
Seeking a Prophet: How Religion Mediates the Relationship between Black America and the U.S. Presidents
by Melissa Harris Lacewell, University of Chicago
With invited responses by John Brehm and Omar McRoberts
March 2005
Martin Buber's Land of Two Peoples
by Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago
February 2005
"Notes From the Field: Retrieving the Dead"
by Kristin Bloomer, University of Chicago
January 2005
"Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! The Monster Trucks’ Black Sabbath"
by Jeremy Biles, University of Chicago
With a formal response by Joseph L. Price
December 2004
"The Mythology of Self-Imitation in Passing: Race, Gender, and Politics"
by Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Celia Brickman, Martha Selby, and Catharine Stimpson
November 2004
"The Mother in Heaven and Eve: Models of Femaleness in Early Mormonism"
by Susanna Morrill, Lewis & Clark College
With a formal response by Catherine Brekus
October 2004
"The Theology of George W. Bush"
by Bruce Lincoln, University of Chicago
With a formal response by Hugh Urban
September 2004
"Conjuring Curses and Supplicating Spirits: Baseball's Culture of Superstitions
by Joseph L. Price, Whittier College
With formal responses by Jerry Davich, D. Gregory Sapp, Krista Tippett, and Mark G. Toulouse.
June 2004
"A 'Monkish Virtue' outside the Monastery: On the Social and Civic Value of Humility"
by Mary M. Keys, University of Notre Dame
With formal responses by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Michael Foley, and Jennifer Herdt.
May 2004
"Undoing the Mahdiyya: British Colonialism as Religious Reform in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1914"
by Noah Salomon, University of Chicago Divinity School
With formal responses by Cassie Adcock and Jeremy Walton
April 2004
"Science in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Bible"
by James T. Robinson, University of Chicago Divinity School
March 2004
"Complicity and Moral Memory"
by M. Cathleen Kaveny, University of Notre Dame
With a formal response by Father James Keenan
February 2004
"'A place to go to connect with yourself': A Historical Perspective on Journaling"
by Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Leigh Schmidt and Kathryn Lofton
January 2004
"Black Theology: The Notion of Culture Revisited"
by Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago
With a formal response by James A. Noel
December 2003
"'Religion': Just Another Modern Western Construction?"
by Martin Riesebrodt, University of Chicago
With formal responses by José Casanova, Prasenjit Duara, and Stephen Sharot
November 2003
"The Catholic Sophocles: Violence and Vision in Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation'"
by Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Robert Barron, Brian Britt, and Terrence W. Tilley
October 2003
"Humanity Before God: Theological Humanism from a Christian Perspective"
by William Schweiker, University of Chicago
With formal responses by David E. Klemm, Terence J. Martin, and Lisa Cahill
September 2003
"Religion and the Constitution Confounded: Treating the First Amendment as a Theological Statement"
by Thomas J. Curry, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
With formal responses by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and W. Clark Gilpin
July 2003
"The Iconization of Elián Gonzalez: The Making of National History by Family Melodrama"
by Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Campbell McGrath and Stephan Palmié
June 2003
"Critical Familism, Civil Society, and the Law"
by Don Browning, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Amy Laura Hall and Rebekah Miles
May 2003
"Thinking about War and Justice"
by Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Divinity School
With formal responses by Richard B. Miller and Charles T. Mathewes
April 2003
"Masquerading as One's Self: A Revealing Study of Self-Impersonation in Literature"
by Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
March 2003
"Capabilities and Disabilities: Justice for Mentally Disabled Citizens"
by Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Divinity School
With a formal response by John Deigh
February 2003
"The Desert Within and Social Renewal: Martin Buber's Vision of Utopia"
by Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago Divinity School
With a formal response by Gregory Kaplan
January 2003
"The Letter from Prison in Christian History and Theology"
by W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Divinity School
With a formal response by Peter Iver Kaufman
December 2002
"Mr. Atta's Meditations, Sept. 10, 2001: A Close Reading of the Text"
by Bruce Lincoln, University of Chicago
With formal responses by Mark Juergensmeyer and Bruce B. Lawrence
