The ways in which religion sustains the status quo for poor and politically subjugated groups. By Dr....
Religion
Reflections on race and gender in religious and theological studies, while addressing issues of power, rarely include...
The significance of Constantinople as the place of the imagined event of the death of Arius. Introduction...
Abrahamic views of poverty as a curse and poverty as a blessing – and their interrelated history...
Nonreligious voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in the November presidential race and were key in several down-ballot state...
The rise of secular voters is providing a potent counterbalance to the religious right. candidates have been...
Piously opposing Trumpism as evil is empty, because it does not deal with white evangelicalism’s own racism....
Although they were victims of religious persecution in Europe, the Puritans supported and pursued it in the...
Starting with the 1620 Plymouth covenant, religion colored Massachusetts law. One of the reasons New England towns...
It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled. Introduction When...
A scholar explains the history of the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and...
Many saints are venerated for specific reasons, professions, or even nations. Introduction On Oct. 10, 2020, Carlo...
Exploring the early colony’s brief existence and the alternate vision of America it represents. This article, Lord...
Jainism is a nontheistic religion in that it does not advocate a belief in a creator god...
Reading the gospels as history without the criteria we apply to the reading of all ancient history...
Trump’s Christian nationalist supporters are not simply going to quietly accept these election results. By Chrissy Stroop...
The study of heresy requires an understanding of the development of orthodoxy and the role of creeds...
The powers of saints were believed to extend to their images. By Dr. Wendy A. SteinResearch AssociateDepartment...
The Golden Legend often blends traditional stories about the saints with historical facts, as seen in the...
The text is a detailed account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Mount Sinai, originally written by...
After death, one was guided through the Hall of Two Truths where the heart was weighed against...
Although QAnon’s conspiracy theories are baseless, the dangers the movement poses are very real. Parker Neff was...
The Book of Enoch brings Azazel as a fallen angel onto Mount Hermon, a gathering-place of demons...
Ahriman was the “Evil spirit, … whose religion is evil [and] who ever ridiculed and mocked the...
What was behind this craven abandonment of principles in favor of someone who would embarrass your average...
Romans were particularly receptive to foreign cults at times of social upheaval to help address new uncertainties...
The idea of a single, unified, and dominant religion shared by all members of a single culture...
Loki is referred to in 13th-century Scandinavian poems and folklore. Introduction Loki is a god in Norse...
The dangers posed by today’s Christian nationalists are all too real. On August 26th, during the Republican...
The Catholic charismatic movement in the United States began during the 1960s, encompassing various forms of Pentecostalism....