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vol. 9, issue 12 - September, 2016 The Hajj and Europe	vol. 9, issue 3 - December, 2015 A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation	vol. 9, issue 2 - November, 2015 The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq
vol. 7, issue 12 - September, 2014 Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River	vol. 7, issue 4 - January, 2014 Alawites and the Fate of Syria	vol. 6, issue 9 - June, 2013 Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity
vol. 5, issue 10 - July, 2012 Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising	vol. 3, issue 5 - February, 2010 Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts	vol. 1, issue 10 - July, 2008 What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'
vol. 1, issue 2 - November, 2007 Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World

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November, 2017 The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation	October, 2015 Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity	February, 2015 "There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism
September, 2014 There Are No Heroes Here: American Malaise in the Seventies	August, 2014 Rome's Wondrous Rivers	April, 2014 Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World
March, 2014 After Midnight	January, 2014 Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses	July, 2013 Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
January, 2013 He Led His People Into the Desert	November, 2012 What to Do About the Money?	September, 2011 Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"
August, 2011 Figuring Out the Shape of the World	January, 2011 Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons	July, 2010 The Far Right Stuff
September, 2009 To Serve God and the King?	April, 2009 God for Nazis	February, 2008 American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust
January, 2008 In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement	February, 2007 Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge	June, 2006 American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
March, 2006 Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade	April, 2005 Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War

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A Postcard from Jerusalem From Connecting History	October 2017: Martin Luther and the Reformation From Milestones	A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews From Connecting History
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Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For	The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century	Speaking Truth to Catholic Power
Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”	Changing the Constitution to Protect Adam and Eve?	‘Til All the World’s an Ebenezer
The Debate That Won’t Die	The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly	How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas
Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism	The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”	Embracing the Pope–Selectively
Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict	The Catholic Church and the Holocaust	Persecuted Christians?
Facing Anti-Semitism and American History	The Bible as a Political Tool	11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) From Connecting History
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