Ed Simon

Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University, the editor of the Pittsburgh Review of Books, staff writer at LitHub, and the author of several books, including Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, named a “Best Book of 2024” by The New Yorker.

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Religion Dispatches

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better.

Ed Simon

May 18, 2015

Global Right
Christian Right
popular culture
catholicism
dalai lama

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Religion Dispatches

Jesus Went to Hell, But Nobody Wants to Talk About It

The day after Good Friday? Bad Saturday.

Ed Simon

April 2, 2015

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Religion Dispatches

ISIS is the Islamic “Reformation"

On August 10 th 1566 an enraged crowd of Huguenots burst into the Chapel of St. Lawrence in Steenvorde France and proceeded to destroy with hammers and picks any ecclesiastical art that they came…

Ed Simon

March 3, 2015

islam
islamism
islamism

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