As someone one who favours working through source materials on persons of ancient history, I have recently noted my pleasure at the earliness of the gospel sources for the ministry […]
Who Were the Aztecs? The Aztecs were an agricultural people living in Mexico from 1300 to 1521 CE. Religiously, the Aztecs were polytheistic for they believed in a pantheon of […]
This entry is an introduction to some of the discoveries scholars and critics have recently made which are thought to challenge traditional understandings of Islamic origins. This paper is intended […]
Hinduism is the general term used to denote the religious traditions indigenous to the Indian sub-continent that formed in the Indus Valley Civilization. This civilization existed in contemporary day Pakistan […]
According to scientific knowledge, the first humans (Homo sapiens, the knowledgable ones) came out of Africa 200 000 years ago. These early humans were just like us moderns in basic […]
Origins in the Religious Reformer Mahavira Although Jains believe that Jainism has always existed and that it always will exist, it is Mahavira, regarded by Jains to be the most […]
As we briefly noted, the cult of Mithraism was an emergent secretive religion that begun in the late first century CE of the Roman Empire. It evidently flourished and its […]
The cult of Mithras is one of the least understood religions of the ancient world. We do know that it begun in the city of Rome in the late first […]
Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893-1965) was a scholar of the history of religion who specialized in early Christianity and the religions of the Hellenistic period. Like a number of other theorists, […]
According to the 20th century scholar of Buddhism Erich Frauwallner, “That the Buddha actually existed is a relatively well established historical fact” yet “questioning his existence is occasionally done” (1). […]
