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, ...

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.

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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 ...