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"[M]y own frustration with most 'conversations' between 'science and religion' is that they presume a fundamental conflict between them." @janeforbrains (@wesleyan_u) responds to our forum on her book Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (@ColumbiaUP) https://t.co/02VEhRLsvl

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"Mysticism, in general, tends to require a framework of religious traditionalism in which the mystical impulse can ignite from within a given religious infrastructure." —Pinchas Giller on Huss's "Mystifying Kabbalah" and Boulouque's "Another Modernity" https://t.co/Sb6rasogff

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"While pursuing her scholarly agenda, Balthrop-Lewis strengthens her portrait of Thoreau by weaving into it her own history, experience and ethical struggles." Prof. in Environmental Studies Rebecca Kneale Gould on Alda Balthrop-Lewis' "Thoreau’s Religion" https://t.co/8pnWB24mO5

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In this interview for MRB TV, Philip Ball discusses his book, Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Knew about Quantum Physics is Different, which won the William Thompson, Lord Kelvin 2019 Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. https://t.co/ovywkmgaGS

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"Andras Koerner’s work is a thoroughly critical and delightful preservation of Jewish culinary culture, food history, and recipes for all readers." Avery Robinson on Koerner's "Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History." https://t.co/6B3AkJ5qDR

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"McCarthy looks back at his oeuvre as well as his life and ponders both what has been and what might have been. So much accomplished but so much left unsaid and undone. These metaphysical musings invite patient readers to do likewise." —Mark C. Taylor https://t.co/uMzlmIEVpV

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Today's issue features Hasan Hameed's (@princeton) review of "The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam" (@oxunipress) by @yale Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Islamic Studies, Frank Griffel. | https://t.co/JY6G95L5Ay https://t.co/HcoeN4YXzQ

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"Philo shared the goal of Platonic philosophers who took their cue from Plato’s Theaetetus and defined the goal of philosophy as 'likeness to God.'" Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of @YaleDivSchool & Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, Gregory Sterling https://t.co/f3EQe4qIaP

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"The Passenger is a novel about ending – not only ending but also about what, if anything, comes after the end. The sense of an ending brings an acute awareness of the inevitability of loss. In the end as in the beginning, there is loss." —Mark C. Taylor https://t.co/uMzlmIEVpV

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"The discovery of Vesey’s plot changed Charleston and South Carolina forever and most of the book examines how white Charlestonians responded to the near insurrection." Bernard E. Powers Jr. reviews Jeremy Schipper's Denmark Vesey's Bible @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/IdvQjSex86