The movie ‘The Case for Christ’ is released this weekend. A scholar takes a close look at the claims for the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection.
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A Christian movement led by popular independent religious entrepreneurs, often referred to as ‘apostles,’ is changing the religious landscape of America.
This is a thought-provoking, odd, shocking and beautiful movie about feminism, fantasy and film history.
Americans are increasingly choosing not to identify with any religious tradition. But this group of irreligious people is a complex one – with different relationships to religion.
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
Hamlet begins with a ‘night of the living dead’; Banquo turns into a ghost . The Bard had a supernatural streak and it was crucial to the genesis of Gothic literature.
In many parts of Nigeria, children are branded as witches and suffer abuse and even abandonment. Religion and poverty are thought to play a role.
The dark, disturbing imagery of Bowie’s final album recalls how the artist inspired the goth movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
The belief in demonic possession – often thought to be a relic of The Dark Ages and the Salem Witch Trials – remains surprisingly mainstream.
Formlings are representations of flying termites and their underground nests. They are associated with botantical subjects considered by the San to have great spiritual significance.
The San are caught between a rock and an art place. While they face an uncertain future, myths and meaning come under the spotlight in a new book.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures, University of Exeter
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Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Public Health Scientist, MidMichigan Health, University of Michigan
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Professor of Music Theory, University of Michigan
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Project Manager, International Rock Art Collaboration, Rock Art Research Institute, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Mobile Media and Games., RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus professor, University of the Witwatersrand