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Broken Altars
Secularist Violence in Modern History
Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard, Ph.D.
Professor of Humanities and History
Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics
A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religious identity. In Broken Altars, Thomas Albert Howard presents a powerful account of the misery, deaths, and destruction visited on religious communities by secularist regimes in the twentieth century. Keep reading…
Yale University Press (2025)
The Poetry of Bob Dylan
Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs
Mike Chasar ’93, Ph.D.
Professor of English and English Department Chair
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
An innovative resource for Bob Dylan fans and scholars alike, these thirty essays by leading scholars of poetry, music, and literature illustrate how and why the work of the 2016 Nobel Literature Laureate is in fact so literary. Examining how Dylan’s lyrics shape or get shaped by vocalization, performance, instrumentation, film, recording technologies, and the forces of history unfolding around him, this collection models a range of ways to understand the songs as poetical phenomena by answering questions like: How can we read and understand Dylan’s lyrics as poetry? How do those lyrics build on, dialogue with, and expand the poetic tradition? How does Dylan’s style change over time while both pushing and responding to changes in the world of popular music? Keep reading…
Bloomsbury Press (2025)
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