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Twenty-five years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still resisting the culture of violence.
Christians have engaged in passionate debates over the meaning of the resurrection. Baptists may be distinct in that they believe an external religious authority cannot enforce views on such matters.
Easter and Passover begin on the same weekend this year. This is an opportunity to revisit misconceptions about Jesus’s ministry and to address anti-Jewish uses of Christian scripture.
Prayers and symbols have the power to bind people together, writes a religion scholar, and so it is important to understand the history and context of Good Friday prayers.
The expression to “wash one’s hands of responsibility” comes from Christian scripture and has been part of a toxic legacy of blaming Jews for Jesus’s death.
Sept. 14 is the the Feast of the Holy Cross celebrated by many Catholics and some other Christians. A religion scholar revisits the history of the cross, how it became a symbol of divine love, but also of violence.
Was Jesus Christ the first male lead in the history of modern theatre?
On Good Friday, Christians give thanks for their salvation, which they believe was made possible by the suffering of Jesus. But for Jews, it was common in the Middle Ages to be attacked with stones.
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Church History, Seminary of the Southwest
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Associate Professor, Department of Music, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor of Early Christian History and Literature, University of British Columbia
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Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston
