by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 2, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Also see two companion pieces: http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2014/05/ kanishka-in-kashgar-a-report-from-the-fringes-of-the-chinese-empire.html and...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in mental preparation for tonight’s lunar eclipse, together with some quick eschatology, plenty of blood, and an Incan jaguar ] . The upper panel, above, shows a detail of Hieronymus Bosch‘s Ghent representation of Christ...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 18, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on some aspects of religiously motivated suicide, and I’m not clear why I called this one a jotting, since it’s quite long and detailed ] . . I have been taking a couple of online courses on terrorism in recent months, and in...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 12, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — surprising infrequency of capital punishment, though mandated in Sharia and Torah ] . I’m always struck by formal parallelisms, particularly in matters religious — so when I came across this fascinating reference to the...