Creation of Adam (detail), Sistine Chapel Ceiling, by Michelangelo, c. 1508–1512. Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

Creation of Adam (detail), Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo, c. 1508–12. Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

Religion

Volume III, Number 1 | winter 2010

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Preamble

Mandates of Heaven

By Lewis H. Lapham

Finding religion in the strangest of places.

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Freedom by Necessity

By Terry Eagleton

A reconsideration of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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1887 | Indiana

It’s That Simple

The Society of Friends conscientiously objects.More

1901 | Edinburgh

Channel of Blood

William James analyzes religious eccentricity.More

1939 | Princeton, NJ

Albert Einstein Solves the Equation

Understanding the relationship between religion and science.More

Charts & Graphs

Trading Places

Twentieth-century conversions.

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Byzantine historian and daughter of the emperor Anna Comnena.

Black and white photograph of French mystic, philosopher, and activist Simone Weil.

German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Pope Innocent IV

Black and white photograph of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Missing contributor image silhouette

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

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