Saint Gregory the Illuminator or Enlightener established Christianity as the official religion of ancient Armenia. By Mark...
Religion
The U.S. Constitution – that founded our nation – is a secular document. Is America a Christian...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next year whether sexual orientation and gender identity are covered...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
Are we heading towards a “dark age” of religious fundamentalism? I’d like to respond to an article for...
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
The Donation of Constantine was most likely written, and almost certainly used, to coerce Pepin the Short...
The period of the Reformation (roughly 1500-1700) witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes in religion, thought, society,...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...
There are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally...
A friend of FDR but not of big business, Culbert Olson believed humans had to save themselves....
It might appear to many that atheism is a modern idea. However, in parts of Asia, particularly...
It made sense for the Quakers to cultivate an exaggerated presence in order to make their voices...
Considering the spread of Judaism from the viewpoint of other cultures in the Ancient Near East. Introduction...
Examining the transitions from “selective polytheism” to henotheism and subsequently, from henotheism to global monotheism. Introduction In...
William James and the philosophy of pragmatism. “Be not afraid of life, believe that life is worth...
How a New York farmer’s elaborate hoax “proved” giants roamed the Earth. One Sunday afternoon in October...
In Peru, the challenge of providing health care to the country’s citizens has spurred interest in alternative...
A shrine to a “wise woman” fulfilling an oraculor role. By Philippe BohstromArchaeologist The town of Abel Beth...
Examining cult and religion in Philistia during the Iron Age. By Dr. David Ben-ShlomoProfessor of ArchaeologyAriel University...
Where does the ‘religion’ end and the ‘populism’ begin? Ben Ryan speaks of the use of Christianity...
The only way to stop them is to call them out at every turn. By Darrell Lucus...
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. Introduction...