This was Ramadan stripped of embellishments. Gone were the social gatherings and the opportunities to dress up and be festive that typically mark this month. Instead, I found myself in a Ramadan ...

This week, the Carbondale Clay Center celebrates over 30 artists who have played a pivotal role in the center’s development ...

(RNS) — I was talking with a Roman Catholic-raised friend who no longer practices the religion of his youth. At a certain ...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Lukasik explores how American evangelical narratives of global Christian persecution have ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Instead of presenting history as a fragmented series of dates and events, the human journey framework weaves these elements into a story of resilience and transformation. It invites students to see ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...

A total lunar eclipse will be viewable in the United States overnight into Friday morning. Here's some rituals to practice.

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...