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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1843 | Kreuznach

Opium Den

Karl Marx immanentizes the eschaton.More

1741 | Connecticut

Bending the Bow of God’s Wrath

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

1904 | Heidelberg

Waste Not

Max Weber on Puritans and the glorification of labor.More

Charts & Graphs

Superheroes

Holy men with awesome powers.

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

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Illustration of a woman wearing a bonnet and writing with a quill at a desk

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Drawing of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

Pope Innocent IV

Painting of Persian Muslim poet Farid ud-Din Attar.

One religion is as true as another.

—Robert Burton, 1621

Drawing of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

British philosopher, logician, and social critic Bertrand Russell.

Søren Kierkegaard & Bertrand Russell

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