Persecution of Christians and Muslims and social hostilities towards these minority religious groups in India have been well documented since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in May 2014. […]
Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1830-1902), born in Leiden, Netherlands, was a theologian and professor of the history of religion at the University of Leiden. He specialized in Egyptian, Assyrian, and Mesopotamian […]
The term “Creole religion” refer to the religious traditions of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean. The term is notably associated with professors Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and […]
In 2018 Open Doors, an organization that seeks to raise awareness for persecuted Christians and serve victims of violence, released its World Watch List (WWL) ranking of the 50 countries […]
Human rights violations are well-documented under the secular regime of North Korea (1). According to the United Nations, the nation’s population lives under “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations” […]
Huawei, the massive, world-leading Chinese telecommunication and consumer electronic company, is not on good terms with America. The company, well-known for its smartphones, hasn’t taken so kindly to the criticism […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
