The Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our...
Religion
Calvinism is known for some notable experiments in Christian theocracy. Introduction Calvinism is a system of Christian...
Many features of the Settlement remained in place and their effects can still be seen on today’s...
Medieval medical communities and religious institutions were intermingled. Originally published by Digital Commons at Western Oregon University,...
Medieval reliquaries have been subject to widespread destruction during times of religious and political strife. Relics Christian...
Ships known as Barques of the Gods are associated with a number of different Egyptian deities. Introduction...
In medieval England, churches had a moral duty – and even a legal obligation – to protect...
Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses, wigs, and two-faced...
The affair is sometimes referred to as the Great Schism, but this term is typically reserved for...
The plague swept through Christian Europe and Islamdom at roughly the same time – between 1347 and...
From magic bowls to holy shirts, Muslim cultures used various devices to protect the user from harm...
Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the contemporary world’s...
‘Wondirful revelacyons’, the moving of the soul through visionary experience, are the subject of Kempe’s narrative. Introduction...
Ancient Greek religious practice was essentially conservative in nature and was based on time-honored observances By Colette...
It would appear in later works such as the Atrahasis, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and – most...
Water appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology. When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of...
The dying and dead body was an important locus in both religious and secular discourses of power....
Religious ideas and cultural values exerted a powerful influence upon eugenics in an attempt to make it...
It was the first step of what would turn out to be a rocky and far from...
The 40,000 protestors were dispersed by the threat of armed force and false promises of pardons and...
Hathor was a multifaceted goddess, appealed to for a wide variety of needs, who provided many of...
The author of Enuma Elish drew on the earlier Sumerian goddesses, Nammu and Inanna, to create the...
How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis, but the Mexica brought it to...
Examining nine different civilizations that practiced ritual human sacrifice. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission...
Any idea of separation of church and state was anathema until our Framers, knowing this history, guaranteed...
The fact that the Puritans had left England to escape religious persecution did not mean that they...
Ancient cultures left behind extraordinary memorials which were used for mortuary cults during the epoques in which...