These burial places formed the centers of small-scale chiefdoms and shared a set of sculptural motifs and...
Religion
Herndon would have sympathized with the contemporary journalist who dryly remarked that John Wilkes Booth’s fatal bullet...
Many were conflicted between their desire to believe and their want of rigorous intellectual explanation, and material...
We’re still playing the same game, 2500 years later. There were apparently many anti-superstitious atheists in ancient...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
Contemporary physics aligns smoothly with the doctrine of the eternal return suggested by Nietzsche. By Duane Altheide...
Buddhism was first introduced to Japan from mainland Asia in the 6th century CE, and monasteries were...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
One of the most important moments in the story of Prince Siddhartha is when he reached spiritual...
Jack Kerouac’s study of Buddhism started in earnest in 1953 and is traditionally believed to have ended...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom, 09.26.2017, Newberry Library, republished with permission for educational,...
Many exaggerated claims have been made concerning the effects and consequences of the crusades on life in...
What were the motivating factors for crusaders, from the Pope to the humblest warrior? By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
Hinduism stood for a wide variety of related religious traditions native to India. Introduction For well over...
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...
The splintering of the medieval church ushered in a volatile new era of increased anxiety, tension, and...
How monks, friars and monastic sites became associated with magic in popular tradition, resulting in a lasting...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
The ancients constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems....
So-called heresies offered the opportunity for religious expression outside of the narrowly defined and self-serving precepts 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,...
Monasteries in the Early Middle Ages already had rudimentary rules and guidelines. Introduction The monastic orders of...
The Church regulated and defined an individual’s life, literally, from birth to death and was thought to...
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...
Originally established in the 13th century to combat heretical groups, the Inquisition became a sophisticated, global operation...
The medieval Church developed and retained its power by encouraging the innate human fear of death and...