Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church in Mobile, Alabama / Photo by Altairisfar, Wikimedia Commons The Catholic Church in...
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A bishop granting indulgences in a fresco by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524 (Wikimedia Commons) To understand the...
The Sebasteion, excavated in 1979-81, was a grandiose temple complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors...
Saint-Sulpice church, the romanesque portal, 12th-c., at Marignac, Charente-Maritime, France / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons The...
There were alternate systems of belief for those dissatisfied with the chaotic traditional religious forms. By Dr....
AcequÃa del Camino Inca entrada a la Huaca de los Monos / Photo by Johnattan Rupire, Wikimedia...
Portrait of Edgar Quinet by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu / National Portrait Gallery Examining the connections Quinet made between...
Photo by Ted Spiegel/National Geographic/Getty Emotional therapy is the animating heart of religion combing social bonding surrounded...
Comet critique; the case for moral atheists. The Great Comet of 1577 by Jiri Daschitzsky. / Wikimedia...
Tauroctony statue / Photo by Carole Raddato, Creative Commons Mithraism was a mystery cult in the Roman...
A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Photo by Elvert Barnes, Flickr, Creative Commons The free exercise of religion doesn’t include a right to...
Inscription under the statue of Mary Dyer at the Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston. Note that the place given of...
Cross of the Scriptures, Cathedral, Temple Doolin and South Cross / Photo by Ingo Mehling, Wikimedia Commons...
Wikimedia Commons The gradual intrusion of the Orthodox Church into Russian secular life and the state is...
St Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church / Photo by Philafrenzy, Wikimedia Commons The Eastern family of churches, today...
Today dynamically developing neo-pagan communities in Ural and Siberia supply a discursive frame for national identities, group...
Exploring the links between violent right-wing extremism and its exploitation of Christianity and other religions to recruit,...
Cylinder Seal with Griffins, Humans and a Winged Disk / Walters Art Museum, Wikimedia Commons The religions...
Illustration of Pope Boniface VIII and his Cardinals / British Library, Public Domain Examining how the Church,...
The Pantheon in 1836, by Jakob Alt / Albertina, Wikimedia Commons Religious worship was a public affair...
The Assumption of the Virgin Artist, by Francesco Botticini, c.1475 / Creative Commons The term henotheism continues...
The rise of Zeus. By E.M. Berens / 05.21.2014 Cronus (Saturn) Cronus was the god of time...
The medieval – and modern – Catholic practice of consecrating women as virgins who has lost their...
Battle of Rocroi, 1643, attributed to Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau / Wikimedia Commons During the period of 1524 until 1648,...
“Country-First Conservative support Trump because he’s giving them what they want: a commitment to a white Christian...
The Great Mosque of DivriÄŸi, photograph by Avniyazici The Paulicians were seeking an area out of the...
The air god Shu, assisted by other gods, holds up Nut, the sky, as Geb, the earth,...