Muhlberger's World History

Recently I have been going to Sunday services with the local congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada. This may surprise some of my ...

A while back I was recruited by Andrew Holt to write some articles for an encyclopedia of the history of religion.  I took him up on it, e...

Quite possibly if you are interested in this issue, you've seen something like this. But Juan Cole's summary of what the Bible sa...

Today I took the time to watch Pres. Obama's eulogy all the way through. It certainly will go down as one of the great American speech...

From Discovery News: Animals Mummified by the Millions in Ancient Egypt About a third of the X-rayed and CT scanned artifacts do in fact...

From Informed Comment JUAN COLE: I agree that from 30,000 feet, it looks as though Iran has put together a bloc of countries with significa...

From Foreign Policy: The war against the Islamic State, and the brand of extremist violence it exemplifies, won’t be won or lost on the b...

According to the Globe and Mail , they are building a temple: “I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a...

Did anyone expect this?    Juan Cole reports:     Egyptian  journalist Hilmy al-Namnam said last fall that some researchers had conclud...

Here's the story (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty): In an isolated part of the Caucasus, a monk is spending his days in prayer and sil...

Brian Ulrich forwards this from the Economist: Earlier this year Iran’s authorities arrested a score of men who, in separate incidents...

Think of all the exotic religious beliefs you have read about.  Is it fair to say that most of them are held by people who live in exotic...

Doug Saunders at the Globe and Mail has been writing some really good stuff on the Middle East for a while now.  See this for clear-eyed cle...

People often wonder how medieval Christians could have taken part in holy war, given Jesus's well-known pacifistic pronouncements.  Her...

There has been a lot of talk from Syria about how the loosening of the dictatorship's effective power would lead to the kind of religiou...

Keith Kahn-Harris at Times Higher Education summarizes the argument of Olivier Roy's new book: Religion was supposed to fade away in a...

Prominent American ex-Senator Rick Santorum made a speech recently in which he blamed "the American left" for its supposed hatred...

It certainly is easy enough to believe that people in the Middle East, especially Muslims, are unusually religious, and that there political...

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"How Carolingian!" A giant Jesus in Poznan, Poland.  Thanks to MSNBC.com