The history of the Society of Jesus’ first missions is a story of great journeys. Abstract During...
Religion
Explore religious traditions across cultures and centuries, following how communities encountered the sacred and connected human life to powers beyond the visible world. These histories also examine how religion shaped political authority, cultural identity, art, and social change.
Draconian, old-fashioned, and out-of-date, religious influence on American life continues to decline. By Mark Silk For taking...
U.S. adults generally can answer basic questions about the Bible and Christianity, but are less familiar with...
In fact, God is clearly pro-abortion. By Brian Bolton A prominent fundamentalist Christian minister and television celebrity...
The changing significance of sacred groves (utaki) from medieval to contemporary Okinawa. Abstract This article discusses the...
We’re still playing the same game, 2500 years later. There were apparently many anti-superstitious atheists in ancient...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next year whether sexual orientation and gender identity are covered...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
Are we heading towards a “dark age” of religious fundamentalism? I’d like to respond to an article for...
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for...
Contemporary physics aligns smoothly with the doctrine of the eternal return suggested by Nietzsche. By Duane Altheide...
The religious right may have dominated US politics for decades, but progressive Christians are growing louder in...
Our core values may be encouraging us to reject organized religion. Religious participation is declining among Americans...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
The Upanishads are the philosophical account deemed to be the earliest source of Hindu religion. Introduction The...
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
The Donation of Constantine was most likely written, and almost certainly used, to coerce Pepin the Short...
The period of the Reformation (roughly 1500-1700) witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes in religion, thought, society,...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has...
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...
There are at least five reasons why the claim that the Bible is to be taken literally...
A friend of FDR but not of big business, Culbert Olson believed humans had to save themselves....
It might appear to many that atheism is a modern idea. However, in parts of Asia, particularly...
It made sense for the Quakers to cultivate an exaggerated presence in order to make their voices...