Introduction -- Part I: African connections : historical roots of Afro-Caribbean religions. Yoruba, Fon-Ewe, Ashanti, and Kongo cultural history -- African cultus and functionaries -- Part II: Vodou : ...
The academic study of religion examines belief, ritual, and religious institutions using tools drawn from multiple disciplines. Sociologists analyze how religion shapes communities and social ...
Religious sites -- Arch Street Meeting House -- Reinterpretation of the Arch Street Meeting House / Lynne Calamia -- The California Missions Trail -- California missions / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- ...
(RNS) — Princeton University scholar Judith Weisenfeld has long studied the role of religion and race in America — but it wasn’t until recently that she discovered their historical and troubling ...
The Old City of Damascus, shaped by successive civilizations and surrounded by ancient walls preserving a history that stretches ...
There is something a bit dizzying about much of the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition “Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West.” And that turns out to be a good thing.
IN one of the many Russian films which picture the advance of industrialism in that country and which spread the naïve faith that collectivization plus industrialization will create a new paradise, a ...
Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle Random House, 2024 ($28.99) A few days a month the moon rises as a fat pearl ...