The Bible as Security Blanket, Blindfold, or Weapon
…Suskin Ostriker (Rutgers University Press, 2009). Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest book of essays will make provocative reading for liberals who want to say “Yes, We Can” to taking back the Bible as it seeks to pry a few more fingers from the iron grip conservatives have had on its meaning in the American cultural imagination. This Bible is not, Ostriker wants us to see, the sole property of those who deny the links between “spirituality and sex, s…
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