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. 1880 | England

Who Knows Why?

Gerard Manley Hopkins sees god in the details.More

1741 | Connecticut

Bending the Bow of God’s Wrath

Jonathan Edwards gives his congregation a wake-up call.More

c. 166 BC | Judaea

Blood on the Altar

Judas Maccabeus restores the temple.More

Charts & Graphs

Fun, Sun, and Dogma

Religious summer camps.

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Color portrait of German theologian and reformer Martin Luther.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.

Albert Einstein in a suit and tie standing in front of a chalkboard

Painting of Persian Muslim poet Farid ud-Din Attar.

Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.

—Henri Poincaré, 1903

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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