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. 1623 | London

Resurrection

John Donne’s hymn to God.More

c. 1880 | England

Who Knows Why?

Gerard Manley Hopkins sees god in the details.More

Charts & Graphs

Superheroes

Holy men with awesome powers.

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Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.

French writer and philosopher Michel Onfray.

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

Whatsoever is, is in God.

—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677

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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