UMaine Judaic Studies invites you to join a special reading group starting in October. We will study and discuss Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (W W Norton, 2021). This bestselling and critically acclaimed book explores the startling and controversial thesis that Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Echoing Chomanada […]
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Joel Anderson, Assistant Professor of History, is the author of the new book Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland’s Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350 (UPenn Press).
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Science and religion sometimes appear to clash; for example, some religious organizations reject COVID-19 restrictions on religious grounds. However, many people, like millions of religious scientists, see science and religion as perfectly compatible. The purpose of this study is to examine how people who identify as religious and people who identify as scientists think about […]
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Robert A. Ballingall, Assistant Professor of Political Science, published “The Rule of Law and the Imitation of God in Plato’s Laws” in Perspectives on Political Science online (August 1, 2022). ABSTRACT Scholars interested in the characterology presupposed by constitutional government have occasionally turned to Plato’s Laws, one of the earliest and most penetrating treatments of […]
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