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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1855 | Brooklyn

Be Not Curious

Walt Whitman looks beyond God.More

c. 600 BC | Greece

Mother of the Gods

Honoring the ultimate provider.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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Color portrait of Chinese writer and poet Han Yu.

Saint Teresa of Ávila.

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Color photograph of writer and editor Garret Keizer.

Jean Meslier.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

—John Lennon, 1970

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Missing contributor image silhouette

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

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