The scholar Elaine Pagels discusses her research about ancient accounts suggesting that Jesus’ father might have been a Roman ...

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The relationship between literature and religion in German is unique in the European tradition. It is essential to the definition of German, Austrian and Swiss cultural identity in both the Protestant ...

and Massachusetts – and challenges the conventional view that colonial America had a unified religious history. ‘The great strength of this compelling book is its focus: what laws respecting church ...

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...

Shudders' docuseries, Cursed Films, explores infamous movies, like The Exorcist and Poltergeist, and their "cursed" backgrounds.

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Claude Chappe Claude Chappe was born on Christmas day (25 December) 1763, in the small French town of Brûlon, some 200 km ...

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Little was known about the manuscript, which donated by Edward Ayer, a tycoon who made his fortune supplying railroad ties.

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