Many people saw it as an attack on religion, because the book made it impossible to believe that God created the world in seven days. Darwin put forward the theory that all life, including humans ...

Many people saw it as an attack on religion, because the book made it impossible to believe that God created the world in seven days. Darwin put forward the theory that all life, including humans ...

Max Mueller’s interest in the study of comparative religion had a background in German Idealism. The latter, along with orientalism, also shaped the understanding of ancient religions among several ...

The piece also stated that Jost was the son of a Jewish convert and had been encouraged by his father to practice the faith. In 1857, The Israelite described how a Christian woman in Landau, Germany, ...

(source) The academic study of religion as we know it today can be traced to the 19th century encounter of Western scholars and theologians with non-Western cultures. In the United States, departments ...

Through intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the ...

In the 19th century, religious and social reformers like Florence Nightingale adapted the religious template to help women who wanted and/or needed to work outside of the home find purposeful paid ...

The idea that science and religion are at war with one another is actually fairly recent. It really only arose in the last third of the nineteenth century, after the publication of Darwin's book ...

This hand-colored lithograph print is part of Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection. The striking and visually dense piece, titled "An Evil Tree" or "the Natural Heart" is a ...

A historic Quran, handwritten by Seyyid Süleyman Vehbi Efendi in the 19th century, has been donated to the Green Mosque in ...