Examining the inter-relationship of religion and culture in the time period of medieval Spain known as the...
Religion
John Lilburne, reading from Coke’s Institutes of the Lawes of England (1628-44) at his trial for high treason in...
Socrates said that law was a discovery of the reality in relations – that is, of the...
Hanukkah demands fewer religious rituals than most other Jewish observances. Golden Pixels LLC Despite the primacy of Christmas in American culture,...
Cheongung, or the main Shrine Hall of the Three Sages, on the grounds of Samseonggung. Samseonggung Shrine...
Passing lion, brick panel from the Procession Way which ran from the Marduk temple to the Ishtar...
/ An Aztec ceremonial knife with a cedarwood handle and flint blade. The figure of the handle is covered...
Why, in many representations, do we see Moses with horns? Lecture by Dr. Thomas Römer / 02.05.2009 Professor of Biblical...
Fragment of an inscripted clay cone of Urukagina (or Uruinimgina), lugal (prince) of Lagash. The inscription reads: “He [Uruinimgina] dug...
María Lionza statue María Lionza is an indigenous Venezuelan religion that dates back to the 14th century...
How colonists cloaked violence beneath a veneer of gentility and conquered peoples held to religion to preserve their...
Temple II, Tikal, Guatemala. The temple was used as a tomb, probably for the queen of Maya ruler Jasaw Chan K’awiil (r....
The Tauroctony / Photo by CristianChirita, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Wikimedia Commons The Roman deity Mithras appears in the historical record in the...
Sacello Ipogeico (Heroon), Paestum, Italy / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Hero cults were one of the most...
Mass inside the church dedicated to our Lady of Good Health in Valenkanni, Tamil Nadu. D.Fernandes, Author provided A...
Hajj pilgrim at Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2003 The hajj, the annual...
In 14th-century London, Church leaders discovered how to make a tidy income from sex workers. By Dr....
Fresco in the Pellegrinaioof the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Domenico, di Bartolo / Wellcome Collection,...
Quranic script from the 8th or 9th century. Courtesy Wikipedia Al-Farabi drew on a rich variety of Hellenic...
Young Jews praying at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem (Image © Bigstock/kirill4mula) There are approximately 175,000...
Puerto Rico: Capilla del Cristo Old San Juan / Wikimedia Commons Taking a look at the long...
Crispin van de Passe’s perfect elephant as featured in his ‘t Light der teken en schilderkonst (1643) / Internet...
With moralistic gods watching, it’s easier to be fair and cooperative. Olivier, CC BY-NC-ND For human groups to grow from small,...
Craig Cloutier/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Stephen Law / 12.15.2015 Philosopher and Author Centre for Inquiry Human beings...
‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur,’ by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878 In the 1870s European Judaism...
Hutterite family 1588 Anabaptists constituted one of the most persecuted and most mobile religious populations of the...
During the medieval period the Muslim community was rather tolerating and accepting in this regard. By Muzaffar...
Modern reconstruction of what the Second Temple would have looked like after its renovation during the reign of Herod I...
We speak of Greek religions or “cults” in the plural, though most of them shared similarities. Curated/Reviewed by...
The limestone Pyramidion of Ramose, from the top of the tomb of the ‘Necropolis Scribe’. Scenes on all four...