(The Conversation) — In China, people celebrate Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14, but there are at least three holidays and cultural traditions centered on romantic love. A figure that ties together these ...

Greek mythology’s influence on modern literature and art is undeniable, forming the basis of storytelling, symbolism, and ...

His life’s work was asserting the humanity and history of the Bantu people, while proposing that the soul was able to bring knowledge of the past and of the future into the present. Australian writers ...

In their attacks on God and religion, the neo-atheist authors such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are especially vehement in their accusations concerning the effects of ...

The notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.’s Paul Tillich and Germany’s Rudolf Bultmann. But this has rarely been stated flatly by ...

The man who invented the phrase “separation of church and state” must be turning in his grave. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a group that opposes the free exercise of religion in ...

What is the good that comes from knowing even a little about the ancient Greeks’ religion? I prefer to learn of actual people who once lived in a historical setting, a time and a place. Greek ...

Hindu mythology speaks of seven immortals, the Chiranjeevis, who remain on Earth to protect the world and uphold dharma.