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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1916 | Dublin

Contrition

James Joyce’s sermon on hell.More

c. 1725 | Étrépigny

Iniquity

The final testament of a French priest.More

819 | Chang’an

Remonstrance

Han Yu condemns the barbarism of Buddhism.More

Charts & Graphs

Forbidden Knowledge

From the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books (1515–1966).

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Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Saint Teresa of Ávila.

Black and white photograph of English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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

Color portrait of English poet John Donne.

Roman emperor Julian.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Missing contributor image silhouette

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

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