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“Not a Christian Book”: The Perils of the Amazon Book Review

By Charlotte Gordon

…my craw. The reviewer, Amazon pen-name “Jubilee” wrote that: [In Gordon’s book] sometimes more credence is given to the Koran and non-canonical religious books [than] the Bible itself. That may be laudable from a secular standpoint, but not mine. I prefer a Christian world view. And I filter everything through that. My point is that I cannot give a positive review in terms of a Christian book. Because it is not. Why did this bother me? Sour grape…

Conservative Christian Book on Obama’s Faith

By Bill Berkowitz

…tico news organization). In the column, titled “Bush Backer Pens pro-Obama Book,” Smith writes that the book’s “tone ranges from gently critical to gushing, and the author defends Obama—and even his controversial former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—from conservative critics, and portrays him as a compelling figure for Christian voters.” According to Smith, “Mansfield’s book is addressed to Evangelical readers, and it raises some questions ab…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…rginal man.” However, I don’t think anything essential was left out of the book. I do hope that the book opens up new avenues of inquiry and reflection. For instance, the fourth chapter reinterprets the assimilation of Jewish immigrants in relation to pragmatist concerns about forming a democratic public under modern social conditions. I couldn’t fully explore the implications of this suggestion in the book, but I hope that social scientists who a…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ity of fascism. I hope there’s enough about the militant eroticism in this book for people to understand that. That’s something I really noticed when I read your book. When it comes to religion, ecstasy has always been a theme. But I found it striking how intertwined violence and sexual pleasure are here. By the way, we’re going off on a tangent, but I think this might be interesting to you. As a joke, I started a project with a colleague of mine…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ig red devil. But for the real thing, stop by your local geek palace comic book store and buy Mignola’s three-book Hellboy series “The Crooked Man,” (Dark Horse Comics) with art by Richard Corben. Set in an Appalachian hollow in 1958, it’s a riff on an old folktale about a satanic emissary called the Crooked Man. Our hero, Hellboy, is there to help a man who’s sold his soul bury his father in sacred ground. That summary does it no justice—it’s one…

‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity

By Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O'Neal

…us driving off a cliff together. What alternative title would you give the book? Lauren: Actually, this book did have a different title for multiple years! It was originally called By the Rivers of Babylon: Apostates Remember Believing, a reference to Psalm 137:1: “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.” The idea was that people who have left the church are experiencing a kind of exile like the Israelites did in Babylon….

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…connection, once burning with possibility and joy, began to cool, as cell phone calls dwindled and numbers eventually changed or were disconnected. As our shared realities drifted apart in their likeness, like Pigpen, I also turned to technologies that promised connection to try to tamp down the yearning and temper that sense of loss. Where Pigpen called up the trusty telephone operator, I did my pining alone, with only the camaraderie of a searc…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…ation in Stevens Point, Wisconsin I have been following events through telephone, Internet media, and Facebook postings. On June 24, 2013, the Hanuman Fan Club on Facebook, a group devoted to the deity Hanuman, posted an old pre-flood image of the Kedarnath temple. Hindi text introduces the image, noting that of all the structures in Kedarnath only the temple survived because “It was connected to the faith of millions and therefore Mahadev [Shiva]…

Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…act of making the Jefferson Bible. He explained the reasons for making the book in his correspondence, but there’s nothing in the book itself. So every generation recasts it in its own image. Your book takes us through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of the Jefferson Bible as an historical object. What’s your favorite part? I’m drawn to Cyrus Adler. Starting in the late nineteenth century, he was a curator of the National Museum, a p…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…