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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The garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1615. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands.

The Original Sin

By Francine Prose

Where misogyny comes from—and why it endures.

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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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c. 1725 | Étrépigny

Iniquity

The final testament of a French priest.More

1773 | Boston

Aboard the Angelic Train

Phillis Wheatley on equality before God.More

c. 58 | Rome

Jumbled Atoms

A look at Lucretius’ universe.More

Charts & Graphs

Fun, Sun, and Dogma

Religious summer camps.

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Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

American writer Philip Roth.

Photograph of American writer Francine Prose.

Seneca chief Red Jacket.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Color portrait of German theologian and reformer Martin Luther.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Missing contributor image silhouette

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

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Roundtable

Lapham’s Quarterly Is on Hiatus

By Lapham’s Quarterly

But the American Agora Foundation is already planning for the future. More

The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.

DÉjÀ Vu

Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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Terracotta funerary plaque, Greek, Attic, c. 520 BC.

The World in Time

Robert D. Kaplan

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More

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