A shared understanding and cooperation between secular and religious helpers for addressing domestic violence is important. Originally...
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Reviewing current research on the connection between Christian religious language and domestic violence against women. Originally published...
They want to undermine and dismantle the principle as currently understood by the U.S. judicial system. By...
The U.S. Constitution is a wholly secular document. Is the United States a “Christian nation”? Some Americans...
Byzantine texts interpreted the domed church as a microcosm – a three-dimensional image of the cosmos. Ecstatic...
We can use the Constitution to create a better country. But constitutional fundamentalism will create a worse...
The pulverizing defeat at Hattin had left most of the Crusader strongholds without enough soldiers to defend...
Calvinism is known for some notable experiments in Christian theocracy. Introduction Calvinism is a system of Christian...
Medieval medical communities and religious institutions were intermingled. Originally published by Digital Commons at Western Oregon University,...
Ships known as Barques of the Gods are associated with a number of different Egyptian deities. Introduction...
Exploring the history of Christian nationalists, their motives, and their modern resurgence. Edited by Dr. Mark T....
The affair is sometimes referred to as the Great Schism, but this term is typically reserved for...
The division between the Guelphs and Ghibellines in Italy, fueled by the imperial Great Interregnum, persisted until...
From magic bowls to holy shirts, Muslim cultures used various devices to protect the user from harm...
The “Christian nation” project, promoted by the Religious Right is a serious threat to America’s social, cultural,...
Religious ideas and cultural values exerted a powerful influence upon eugenics in an attempt to make it...
An overview of the major world systems, and where and how they have been and are implemented....
The author of Enuma Elish drew on the earlier Sumerian goddesses, Nammu and Inanna, to create the...
How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
The early depictions of hell were meant to use fear as a moral guide to help others....
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
Examining nine different civilizations that practiced ritual human sacrifice. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission...
Any idea of separation of church and state was anathema until our Framers, knowing this history, guaranteed...
The fact that the Puritans had left England to escape religious persecution did not mean that they...
Some of the burials in the Palaeolithic period raise the possibility of very early forms of ancestor...
The foundational Jewish texts assert that a fetus does not attain the status of personhood until birth....
Islamic medicine was built on tradition, chiefly the theoretical and practical knowledge developed in Greece and Rome....
The spirits and gods were believed to make their presence known through disease. Introduction When people fall...
For fundamentalists, whose brains are not accustomed to thinking critically, rational arguments don’t make a dent with...