Women and Religion in America — offers a full scope of ethnic faith traditions from across the ages, and the second — The Gilded Age — uses the HBO series of the same name to explore the latter part ...

Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not. Sacred texts mean different things to different religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and ...

The Bible is a cultural force unlike no other. As a book, it outsells all others combined. As a source of authority, only the Constitution competes with it for influence. But what is the Bible, really ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

Hinduism is widely regarded as the oldest religion in the world, with roots that trace back thousands of years. Unlike other major religions, Hinduism has no single founder, no fixed date of origin, ...