An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

Religion is a hot, sometimes tensely debated, topic. Few spiritual traditions face as much stigma as paganism. Paganism is ...

The Khmissa, also known as the Khamsa and the Hand of Fatima, is the symbol of the five-fingered hand well known across the Middle East and North Africa as a symbol of protection. The symbol is ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as indistinguishable. This is partly because the Greeks and Romans were ...

The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Somewhere in the world, a meal, ritual, or offering is being prepared in religious observance—most likely by the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Living Traditions will run from May 22 until October 19, 2025, in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery at the British Museum.

These 34 monasteries and temples, extending over more than 2 km, were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff, not far from Aurangabad, in Maharashtra. Ellora, with its uninterrupted ...