Unlike the Spanish conquistadors, or even the Portuguese, the British colonialists in India did not use brute force to save the millions of Hindus passing into eternity without salvation. An overt or ...

Polytheism can be a terribly confusing affair to monotheists. The confusion is not just spiritual but material and cultural. Non-practising or secular people brought up in monotheistic cultures are ...

In this punchy yet flawed polemic, Bettini (Anthropology and Roman Culture), professor at Italy’s University of Siena, presents polytheism as a preferable alternative to monotheistic religions.

The powerful thesis presented by Rodney Stark then is that monotheism implies religious intolerance. In this he has the support of a prominent Hindu thinker, S Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), who wrote: ...

The Islamic State claimed credit for the Dec. 11 bombing in the women’s section at the main Coptic church in Cairo, Egypt. The attack, which killed 24 Christians, is the latest against Egypt’s Coptic ...

Christopher Douglas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Victoria provides funding as a ...

The different gods of Ancient Greek polytheism and how they are worshipped By Nikolaos Markoulakis What makes me a Greek polytheist today in the twenty first century, is exactly what made an ancient ...