The faithful have no use for facts and figures or history and geography says DEVDUTT PATTANAIKWhen the British came to India they found Hindu practices very confusing They came from a very different r ...

The devout spend the entire month of Sravana in the worship of Shiva culminating in the Sravana Purnima on Raksha Bandhan day Shiva is beyond the Gunas as His trident represents all three sattva rajas ...

This modern era of high precision stems in part from studies of the oldest light accessible to us—the cosmic microwave background (CMB ... the universe’s fiery birth. Back then space was ...

MANILA – The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) together with the City Government of Manila will commemorate the 150 th birth anniversary of Gregoria ‘Oriang’ de Jesus on 9 May ...

I set out to reconcile the ideas of Kuznets and Piketty by studying technological growth and wage inequality in imperial China over 2,000 years—back beyond the birth of Jesus. To do this ...

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey argued, for example, that the birth of Jesus had to be seen as a metaphysical singularity standing outside the march of history. Likewise ...

Very different beliefs, ones that we now treat as natural and recognize as just part of the background hum of our ... but they had helped to midwife the birth. With the usual compression of ...

In her bold first chapter, for instance, Pagels considers the various accounts of Jesus’ birth. Curiously ... only a preliminary skirmish in a vast cosmic conflict now enveloping the universe ...

Writing around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, in 70 C.E., he gave Jesus’s story cosmic dimensions ... Jesus’s birth and says little about his family background.

In other words, they are “less a biography than a passionate manifesto, showing how a young man from a rural background ... take on Jesus’ genealogy, the virgin birth, whether or not he ...

Joseph is a central figure in the story of Jesus’ birth, but he quickly takes a backseat as the ... does give us insight into his socio-economic background. The Greek word for carpenter in the Bible ...