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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Church & State in America

By Elisabeth Sifton

The Founding Fathers approached the church-state conundrum with an intellectual clarity that was characteristic of their times.

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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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778 | Saragossa

Splitting Hairs

Charlemagne strikes a blow against paganism.More

c. 58 | Rome

Jumbled Atoms

A look at Lucretius’ universe.More

1823 | England

Painted Wood

William Hazlitt dismantles the world of make-believe.More

Charts & Graphs

Houses of the Holy

Old and new uses for religious architecture.

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Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

American writer Philip Roth.

Pope Innocent IV

Black and white photograph of German writer Hermann Hesse.

Black and white photograph of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy.

Painting of Persian Muslim poet Farid ud-Din Attar.

The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.

—Edward Gibbon, 1776

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

English critic and author G. K. Chesterton.

Ralph Waldo Emerson & G.K. Chesterton

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