Christianity remains the most popular faith to move into, with 36 per cent questioned reporting becoming a Christian or ...

As the holiday season approaches, the competition for the title of the world's largest Christmas tree heats up, capturing the imagination of festive enthusiasts around the globe. This year, Rio de ...

Did Christians steal Easter from a pagan goddess? The truth is far more complicated — and far more interesting. Only one ancient writer even mentions Eostre, and everything else is guesswork built on ...

If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

What does a church council from the year 325 have to do with a group of more than 300 suburban Catholics gathered in a ...

There are no large, public outreach organizations for pagans in the Mid-Hudson Valley area. For those who are pagan or pagan ...

Modern Paganism (known also as Neopaganism or Contemporary Paganism) is a movement / group of religions / spiritual traditions centered on the reverence of nature. Modern Paganism borrows and adapts ...

ABSTRACT: This paper argues that Mahayana Buddhist ethics, particularly the concept of “compassionate violence,” can be used to justify revolutionary violence against oppressive political and economic ...