Islamophobia and Racism: Civil Rights at the Breaking Point
Author Erik Love answers RD’s 10 Questions
Read MoreBooks
Why Are We Drawn to Horror?
What inspired you to write Why Horror Seduces? The book is based on years of…
Read More
“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence
Dylan Krieger writes of the prophets who eat scrolls and insist the parchment tastes just like the honey of that many-mansioned heaven in the by-and-by sky.
Read More
How “Mindfulness” Lost Its Mind
What inspired you to write Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism?…
Read More
You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion
What inspired you to write Consuming Religion? Restlessness. After I finished my first book, I…
Read More
You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale triumphed at the Emmys last night, capping a culture-grabbing comeback for…
Read More
More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s
What inspired you to write PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical…
Read More
Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
Author Max Perry Mueller answers RD’s 10 Questions
Read More
Magic in the Air: How Intellectuals Invented the Myth of a Mythless Society
Author Jason Josephson-Storm answers RD’s 10 Questions
Read More
“The Slut Assumption”: Myths About Jewelry Reveal Diamonds Aren’t Always A Girl’s Best Friend
Author Wendy Doniger answers RD’s 10 Questions
Read More