Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his ...

[Vienna, July 21, 2025] –The book Seshat History of Moralizing Religion explores how societies across the world have answered some of the oldest human questions: What do the gods want from us? Will we ...

This article reviews a range of important recent work on Greek religion. It looks first at the critique (common to a number of the books under review) of the polis-religion model associated with ...

There are more than 1,000 whitewashed stone chapels on the Greek island of Tinos owned and cared for by private families as ...

One of the most difficult things about studying religion as an academic is convincing people that things in the past were different from what they are now. To put it another way, what most people ...

What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean ...

Americans are leaving organized religion in staggering numbers. In the newly released book “Done: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion,” Hope College psychology professor Daryl Van Tongeren offers ...

The trial has started of a Greek journalist accused of defamation over his book denying the miraculous nature of the Orthodox Church's Holy Fire ritual Orthodox Christians hold candles lit during the ...

Twenty years ago, Pope Pius X commissioned a scholar to head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible. The scholar whom he chose for this task was ...