Grounded in a white conservative Christian tribalism, many policies reveal a politics of cruelty. It’s an especially...
Religion
It is often referenced as a Zoroastrian heresy because it departed significantly from central Zoroastrian beliefs. Introduction...
The shift could signify coming political changes. By Jack Jenkins In a shift that stands to impact...
Zoroastrianism was adopted by the Achaemenid Empire, the Parthian Empire, and found its fullest expression under the...
Young Americans see Christians as the group who care the least about the “least of these.” Right...
Evangelicalism ceased being a religious faith tradition when it made a Faustian bargain for the sake of...
The ancient Persian religious tradition was passed down orally, and the only written texts relating to it...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
The need for secular recovery programs has only increased in recent years. In partnership with addiction recovery...
For the source of his story, Arthur Miller looked back to the Salem witch trials of 1692....
Trumpism’s narrative of decline is bound to the narrative of white and White-Christian decline, reconfiguring “Americanness” in...
Dominionists are the direct, Christian equivalent of Islamists demanding Sharia law. Introduction Dominionism or Christian sharia (“Charia”)...
A 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Iraq depicts the demon that the ancient Assyrians thought caused epilepsy....
It contains so many incredible violations of the laws of nature that it cannot possibly be accepted...
How the early Persians worshipped their gods is unknown except that it involved fire and outdoor altars....
The spread of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (from the fifth to tenth centuries) marked the...
Confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and fictional Constitutional rewrites. My upbringing was strict fundamentalist Christian, marked by a...
Fundamentalist evangelicals in the 1920s to 1960s increasingly withdrew into their own subculture. Introduction Fundamentalist Christianity represents...
AG William Barr unleashed a stinging attack on one of the Religious Right’s favorite targets: secularism. Attorney...
The ambition to reform American culture shows the extent to which evangelical political thinking has changed. The...
They wanted to bring about the reform of Protestantism throughout the English Empire. “A City upon a...
Evangelicals who were taught as children to from sex until marriage are coming out and revealing the...
The clergy of ancient Egypt did not preach, interpret scripture, proselytize, or conduct weekly services. Introduction The...
She is best known for her works, Inninsagurra, Ninmesarra, and Inninmehusa, all three hymns to the goddess...
Fundamentalist ideologies act like mental parasites. In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s...
Religious fundamentalism’s power to disrupt and destroy creates a need for deeper understanding of this increasing widespread...
Mystery cults have some characteristics not usually found in more traditional Roman religions. By Stephen Matthiesen The...
Mongol religion included a strong element of shamanism mixed with ancestor worship and a belief in natural...
Erdogan’s sponsorship of terrorism has reached deep into Africa. By Raymond Ibrahim Concerning Turkey’s increasingly suspect role...
The percentage of Christians in Turkey declined from nearly 25% in 1914 to less than 0.5% today....