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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Faith and Reason United, by Ludwig Seitz, c. 1887. Gallery of the Candelabra, The Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

The Courtesy of God

By Garret Keizer

Never mind does God exist—does the God debate exist? Reexamining the relationship between faith and reason.

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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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1779 | Monticello

Church and State

Thomas Jefferson draws the line.More

1982 | Utah

Among the Mormons

Jon Krakauer on going back to basics in Utah.More

c. 1905 | United States

Clad in Robes of Spotless White

James Weldon Johnson attends a camp meeting.More

Charts & Graphs

Houses of the Holy

Old and new uses for religious architecture.

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English writer and essayist William Hazlitt.

British writer Salman Rushdie.

English critic and author G. K. Chesterton.

Black and white photograph of Mencken looking over his shoulder at the camera

Jean Meslier.

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

Black and white photograph of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy.

Pope Innocent IV

I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

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Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, Maryland, October 1862. Photograph by Alexander Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970.

Roundtable

Prophets of War

By Jason Phillips

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War. More

DÉjÀ Vu

Knights of the Water Table

2018:

A young girl raises a pre-Viking sword from a lake in Sweden.

1841:

An ancient bronze sword is discovered in an Irish bog.

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The World in Time

Jill Lepore

Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States. More

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