Anxious Bench Posts

The following document gives a list of all my posts at that site since 2012 (!): there are over a thousand entries now, hard to believe. That would be at least a million words all told. That is over and above other blogging and writing I did through the years at sites such as RealClearReligion, and Aleteia.

The document also suggests the wide range of topics on which I have written at Anxious Bench. I’ll start with a summary of headings, which actually gives a great idea of my scholarly interests over the past couple of decades. I note for instance that the topics of Bible (very broadly defined) and Early Christian history make up at least forty percent of the whole.

1. BIBLE AND APOCRYPHA

Old Testament, Including O.T. Apocrypha And Pseudepigrapha

Second Temple And Intertestamental Period

New Testament

Christian Apocrypha And Alternative Gospels

2. CHRISTIAN HISTORY: MAINLY ANCIENT AND LATE ANTIQUITY

Gnosticism

Egyptian Christianity

Mesopotamia/Iraq

Persia

Late Antiquity

Dark Age Britain And Ireland

Liturgy And The Church’s Year

Dualism And Heresy

Christian Relations With Islam

Christianity And Buddhism

3. HISTORY, MORE MODERN

Reformation And Early Modern

Climate And Religion

Empires And The Making Of World Religions

War And Religion

American History, Mainly Religious

Late Modern US History, From C.1975 Onward

Nineteenth Century Europe

First World War Era

The Cold War

Contemporary Europe And Great Britain

Contemporary Middle East And Islamic World

Wales And Welsh

4. MEMORY, MYTH, AND HISTORICITY

Construction Of Memory And Identity

Historical Methods And Pseudo-History

5. CHRISTIANITY: GLOBAL DIMENSIONS

Global/World Christianity

6. RELIGION AND CULTURE

Freemasonry And The Esoteric

Cults And Cult Scares

Religion And Film

Religion And Literature

Paganism, Folk Horror, And Modern Mythologies

Religion And Music

Religion And Visual Art

Writing And Publishing

Teaching Religious Studies

7. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Contemporary Religious Debates

Demography And Religion


And here is a full listing of all the individual blogs I have done at Anxious Bench over the past decade or so:

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