Jack Miles
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Miles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Miles |
| SIGNATURE | MILES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reopening Muslim Minds
In 1984, editing the late eminent philosopher of science Adolf Grünbaum, whose The Foundations of Psychoanalysis we were publishing at the University of California Press, I was taken aback one day at the vehemence of Adolf's defense of Philip Roth against the charge that he was a “self-hating Jew.” Grünbaum—born in Germany in 1923, emigrating with his family to the United States in 1938—had vivid and contemptuous recollections of how the Nazis ha…
Religion, the Intellectuals, and Partisan Review
The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude
Research Article| April 01 2019 The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha by David A. deSilva deSilva, David A., The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 343 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Kn…
Chapter 9. Establishing Common Ground
The key message of this chapter is that solving the climate problem will require motivating social and behavioral changes through effective communication. More and better communication about climate issues is needed so people will mobilize solutions. Currently most people in the world do not believe that climate change is worth doing anything about, if they have even heard of it at all. Despite the efforts of many journalists, scientists, educato…
The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude
Book Review| September 01 2015 The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha deSilva, David A., The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 343 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3…
The Testament of Mary
Book Review| January 01 2014 The Testament of Mary Tóibín, Colm, The Testament of Mary. (New York: Scribner, 2012), 96 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 136. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374916 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jack Miles; The Testament of Mary. Common Knowledge 1 January 2014; 20 (1): 136. doi: https://d…
Wandering in Darkness
Book Review| April 01 2013 Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering Stump, Eleonore, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford: Clarendon, 2010), 668 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 391–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2073631 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
In the Whirlwind
Book Review| August 01 2013 In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict Burt, Robert A., In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 382 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 577. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2282062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Islamic Political Ethics
One of the most dynamic aspects of the Islamic revival during the past two centuries has been the rethinking of Islamic political thought. A broad range of actors, ideas, and ideologies characterize the debate on how Islamic ethics and law should be manifested in modern institutions. Yet this aspect of the "return to Islam" has been neglected by policymakers, the media, and even many scholars, who equate "political Islam" with merely one strand, …
The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003
Religion and American foreign policy
Religion and Cultural Studies
Chinese nationalism, US policy and Asian security
The eruption of nationalist demonstrations in China after the May 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade suggested a changing relationship between government and ordinary citizens that could have long-term implications for the conduct of the country's foreign and security policies. Confronted by enormous public anger over the NATO attack, the Chinese government felt it had no choice but to risk its foreign policy goals by allowing demons…
A Response to Jack Miles
Political correctness and the American newspaper
ON DECEMBER 2, 1993, David Nyhan of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “The Thought Police Strike Again.” In a parody of novelist Raymond Chandler's immortal Los Angeles detective, Philip Marlowe, Nyhan wrote: “I was in my office, on the fringe of the ghetto , feeling gypped because a check had bounced, watching the crazy divorcée in the next office, a real babe who used to be a nifty co-ed before she married her hillbilly . He was a …
No Way to Delay, Trouble in LA
Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising
Religion and American foreign policy
Chapter 9. Establishing Common Ground
The key message of this chapter is that solving the climate problem will require motivating social and behavioral changes through effective communication. More and better communication about climate issues is needed so people will mobilize solutions. Currently most people in the world do not believe that climate change is worth doing anything about, if they have even heard of it at all. Despite the efforts of many journalists, scientists, educato…
Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising
No Way to Delay, Trouble in LA
Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising
Political correctness and the American newspaper
ON DECEMBER 2, 1993, David Nyhan of the Boston Globe published an article entitled “The Thought Police Strike Again.” In a parody of novelist Raymond Chandler's immortal Los Angeles detective, Philip Marlowe, Nyhan wrote: “I was in my office, on the fringe of the ghetto , feeling gypped because a check had bounced, watching the crazy divorcée in the next office, a real babe who used to be a nifty co-ed before she married her hillbilly . He was a …
A Response to Jack Miles
Chinese nationalism, US policy and Asian security
The eruption of nationalist demonstrations in China after the May 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade suggested a changing relationship between government and ordinary citizens that could have long-term implications for the conduct of the country's foreign and security policies. Confronted by enormous public anger over the NATO attack, the Chinese government felt it had no choice but to risk its foreign policy goals by allowing demons…
Religion and Cultural Studies
Religion and American foreign policy
The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003
Islamic Political Ethics
One of the most dynamic aspects of the Islamic revival during the past two centuries has been the rethinking of Islamic political thought. A broad range of actors, ideas, and ideologies characterize the debate on how Islamic ethics and law should be manifested in modern institutions. Yet this aspect of the "return to Islam" has been neglected by policymakers, the media, and even many scholars, who equate "political Islam" with merely one strand, …
Wandering in Darkness
Book Review| April 01 2013 Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering Stump, Eleonore, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford: Clarendon, 2010), 668 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 391–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2073631 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search S…
In the Whirlwind
Book Review| August 01 2013 In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict Burt, Robert A., In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 382 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 577. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2282062 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
The Testament of Mary
Book Review| January 01 2014 The Testament of Mary Tóibín, Colm, The Testament of Mary. (New York: Scribner, 2012), 96 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 136. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374916 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jack Miles; The Testament of Mary. Common Knowledge 1 January 2014; 20 (1): 136. doi: https://d…
The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude
Book Review| September 01 2015 The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha deSilva, David A., The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 343 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3…
Chapter 9. Establishing Common Ground
The key message of this chapter is that solving the climate problem will require motivating social and behavioral changes through effective communication. More and better communication about climate issues is needed so people will mobilize solutions. Currently most people in the world do not believe that climate change is worth doing anything about, if they have even heard of it at all. Despite the efforts of many journalists, scientists, educato…
Religion, the Intellectuals, and Partisan Review
The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude
Research Article| April 01 2019 The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha by David A. deSilva deSilva, David A., The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 343 pp. Jack Miles Jack Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Kn…
Reopening Muslim Minds
In 1984, editing the late eminent philosopher of science Adolf Grünbaum, whose The Foundations of Psychoanalysis we were publishing at the University of California Press, I was taken aback one day at the vehemence of Adolf's defense of Philip Roth against the charge that he was a “self-hating Jew.” Grünbaum—born in Germany in 1923, emigrating with his family to the United States in 1938—had vivid and contemptuous recollections of how the Nazis ha…
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