Beatus was an early medieval monk who set down to illustrate a collection of writings he had...
Religion
Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
Hasidism was called into existence by the charismatic figure Israel ben Eliezer (ca. 1700–1760), who was active...
The Kingdom of Jerusalem did, in fact, make its own important cultural contributions. On 15 July 1099,...
Modern Taoists in China (and elsewhere) worship many gods at private altars and in public ceremonies which...
The relationship between church and state is the institutional form of the relationship between the religious and political spheres. This...
The problem with mixing religion and politics was that political issues became moral issues and, therefore, more...
Most Carthaginian gods were inherited from the Phoenicians, but these were adapted, and their names and functions...
The Phoenician Religion, as in many other ancient cultures, was an inseparable part of everyday life. By...
The subtext is almost always that the Western paradigm of modernity. A single model of modernity? The...
Examining the centuries’-old sectarian Shia-Sunni divide. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several...
For indigenous peoples, winter solstice has been a time to honor their ancient sun deity. Their rituals...
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music...
During the seismic religious changes of the 16th and 17th centuries, atrocities were committed and martyrs were...
Death rituals help us to cope with loss and perhaps even feelings of guilt associated with disposing...
Quaker worship services have always consisted of long periods of silent reflection. “The voices of the past...
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions,...
Not all religions follow the same practices but there are some similarities between most, if not all,...
Early Israelite religion may once have shared the Canaanite belief in El and other gods, before the...
In the religious politics of the Second Temple period, the Aaronide priestly dynasties were the Mushite priesthood....
Life-size effigies of the saint are distributed throughout the highlands. By Dr. Kathleen McCampbellArchaeologist He sits among...
The Jewish red heifer ash ritual may have originated in surrounding pagan cultures reflecting the transition from...
The Arctic became a place beyond empirical grasp: the real/fantasy land of orality about which those living...
In the nineteenth century, domesticity and maternity became the primary cultural expectation for French women. In the...
An overview of the political, religious, and cultural response to the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Roman honor and shame became Christian virtue and shame. The Christian reinterpretation of the classical Roman dichotomy...
Calling the French liars, atheists, and libertines, undoubtedly evoked a general sense of immorality and disrepute. In...
The future of Yazidism is unclear, but it will certainly never be the same again. Abstract The...
There is no culture recorded in human history which has not practiced some form of religion. Introduction...