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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Freedom by Necessity

By Terry Eagleton

A reconsideration of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

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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. 1880 | England

Who Knows Why?

Gerard Manley Hopkins sees god in the details.More

1904 | Heidelberg

Waste Not

Max Weber on Puritans and the glorification of labor.More

Charts & Graphs

Fun, Sun, and Dogma

Religious summer camps.

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Photograph of American writer Francine Prose.

German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Color portrait of German theologian and reformer Martin Luther.

Polish-born American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.

French writer and philosopher Michel Onfray.

Black and white photograph of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Color photograph of writer and editor Garret Keizer.

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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