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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The garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1615. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands.

The Original Sin

By Francine Prose

Where misogyny comes from—and why it endures.

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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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c. 1368 | Shiraz

A Great Secret

Hafez defends the sanctity of life.More

c. 58 | Rome

Jumbled Atoms

A look at Lucretius’ universe.More

778 | Saragossa

Splitting Hairs

Charlemagne strikes a blow against paganism.More

Charts & Graphs

Trading Places

Twentieth-century conversions.

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Black and white photograph of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Black and white photograph of German writer Hermann Hesse.

History professor Warren Breckman.

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

Photograph of American writer Francine Prose.

Photograph of American novelist and writer Flannery O’Connor.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

—John Lennon, 1970

Ralph Waldo Emerson & G.K. Chesterton

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Roundtable

Artful Dabs of Cheese and Unlimited Caviar

By Sharon Hudgins

What to eat—and avoid—on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More

DÉjÀ Vu

Love Is Dead

2018:

Woman announces she is divorcing her pirate ghost husband.

1926:

Man sues wife for adultery with a ghost.

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The World in Time

Joseph J. Ellis

Lewis H. Lapham talks with Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us. More

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