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Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized six recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes during a reception on April 29.

Book review: In They Flew: A History of the Impossible, historian Carlos Eire studies the curious tradition of levitating saints.

Historian Ned Blackhawk’s sweeping volume, which recognizes the centrality of Native Americans in U.S. history, won the National Book Award in nonfiction.

Distinguished Babalú Blog contributor Carlos Eire, the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, has a new book out. It was written during the pandemic and released this September 26, published by Yale University Press. He will not post about it here himself, so I decided (unasked) to do it

    The Prosecutor General of Finland has undertaken criminal prosecutions that will compel Finland’s clergy and lay religious believers to choose between prison and abandoning teachings of their various faiths.    First, Prosecutor General Raija Toiviainen has charged Dr. Päivi Räsänen, a Member of the Finland’s Parliament and former Finnish Minister of the Interior, with three counts of “ethnic agitation” for peacefully expressing her views on marriage and sexuality.  The charges against Dr. Räsänen stem from her authorship of a 2004 booklet entitled, Male and Female He C...