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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Faith and Reason United, by Ludwig Seitz, c. 1887. Gallery of the Candelabra, The Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

The Courtesy of God

By Garret Keizer

Never mind does God exist—does the God debate exist? Reexamining the relationship between faith and reason.

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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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1835 | United States

Another Form of Hope

Alexis de Tocqueville identifies a principle of human nature.More

c. 166 BC | Judaea

Blood on the Altar

Judas Maccabeus restores the temple.More

1779 | Monticello

Church and State

Thomas Jefferson draws the line.More

Charts & Graphs

Singing His Praises

Religious bands and a sampling of their albums, song titles, and lyrics.

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Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Black and white image of Persian lyric poet Hafez.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Painted portrait of Scottish philosopher David Hume.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

—Galileo Galilei, 1615

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Missing contributor image silhouette

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

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