Ed Simon

Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University, the editor of the Pittsburgh Review of Books, staff writer at LitHub, and the author of several books, including Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, named a “Best Book of 2024” by The New Yorker.

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Religion Dispatches

Forget Romance, It's Time for Some Radical Love

Love is at the center of any genuine liberatory politics – love for your fellow human as well as assertion of the right to love.

Ed Simon

February 13, 2017

theology

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Religion Dispatches

With the Death of One of the Last Three Shakers, an American Religious Tradition Takes a Step Closer to Extinction

For the Shakers, God’s gender was always understood as dualistic, as containing both the masculine and the feminine, and leadership was often matriarchal.

Ed Simon

January 12, 2017

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Religion Dispatches

Mayday's Demise and the Rise of our Gloomy Empire

May 1 st 1628 was the second time that Thomas Morton had erected a Maypole at his colony in Merrymount; but it was to be the decisive event in getting him arrested and exiled by his fellow Englishmen…

Ed Simon

April 28, 2016

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