Ajita by K. Sridhar is a novel exploring the life of a Charvaka philosopher in ancient India.

A British copy called The Wall Chart of World History, was published in 1890 by the Irish geologist Edward Hull (ca 1829-1917). It was incorrectly attributed to him when he added a geological strata, ...

Heather, the chair of medieval history at King's College London, is the author of Christendom: The Triumph of Religion, AD 300-1300 For the first millennium of Christianity’s existence, western ...

A new era. When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, transformed the NOI into the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.”He downplayed previous teachings about Black ...

Key points. In the West, religion is usually equated with theism (i.e., belief in a personal god). We review the history of the term and describe how this meaning came about.

As a scholar of Christian theology and African American religion, I’m aware of this long history of the Black church and its contribution to American politics.Its story began in the 15th and ...

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