The Buddha seated in meditation, one hand on his lap, the other pendant in a gesture known...
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The children’s mother was reportedly locked in a room during the ordeal. © Saikat Paul / Global...
Karthea Temple ruins on the island of Keos (modern Kea) By Dr. Stavros Kouloumentas / 11.01.2016 Postdoctoral...
Figure 1: © John Christian Fjellestad/Flickr CC BY 2.0 2014 By Dr. Michel Clasquin-Johnson / 05.19.2015 Professor...
An activist at a protest rally at the White House against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL...
03.16.2017 For most people discovering the secret to eternal life, or reaching heaven and living forever in...
By Azriel ReShel / 03.21.2017 Can We All be Rainmakers? The Zulu say: He who brings rain,...
Judaism: An Introduction By Dr. Jessica Hammerman (left) and Dr. Shaina Hammerman (right) / 08.08.2015 Jessica...
Maenad playing a tambourine, satyr blowing pipes, and the young god with his panther dance. From the...
Ardnamurchan boat site / Photo by Jon Haylett, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Britt-Mari Näsström Professor of Religious...
Ernestine Rose (left) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (right) / Public Domain By Amy Cools / 10.27.2014 NOTE:...
Jain monks in Gujarat, India By Dr. John E. Cort / 10.01.2015 Professor of Asian and Comparative...
The peak sanctuary at Petsofas: reconstruction with a tripartite building and medium horns of consecration. / Wikimedia...
Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) from the Resurrection fresco, by Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto), c.1494 / Vatican...
The Quranic script from North Africa or Near East, ca. 750-800 AD is a unique combination of...
Dadupanthi Saints / Photo from University of Oxford By Dr. Monika Horstmann / 10.01.2015 Professor of Linguistics...
By Dr. Karl T. Steel / 02.01.2017 Associate Professor of English Brooklyn College Fragment of a 11th...
Buryat shaman Tash Ool Buuevich Kunga consecrating an ovoo. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Olle Sundström /...
The Impostures Last Shift, illustration of the exorcism of Lukins being carried out by the seven clergymen...
An Irish pound banknote featuring and illustration of Queen Medb / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Noémie Beck...
The Great Mosque of Divriği, photograph by Avniyazici By Hugh Jeffrey / 01.16.2017 PhD Candidate in Archaeology...
A mountain stream / Photo by Dilshad Roshan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Noémie Beck / 12.04.2009 Professor...
Anatolian nazar symbol / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Güliz Ulu / 05.24.2016 Professor of Linguistics Huazhong University...
The New Thought movement left behind an important legacy. Wesley Nitsckie By Dr. Christopher H. Evans /...
A woman holds Pope Francis’ head during his meeting with representatives of indigenous peoples at the Vatican...
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1862. Mural, United States Capitol. By Ethan...
By Lisa M. Lane / 05.15.2016 Professor of History MiraCosta College Introduction The High Middle Ages was...
The Morrigan is the goddess of war, battle, strife, and fertility in Celtic mythology. Most notably in...
For the Celts the Winter Solstice represented the end of a season of hard work, it was...
Terracotta relief of the Matres (the Vertault relief), three Celtic goddesses, from the Gallo-Roman settlement of Vertillum...