A new dictionary of 20,000 “foreign” (non-Russian) words and phrases issued by the Soviet State Publishing House defines “Religion” as: “A fantastic faith in gods, angels and spirits … a faith without ...

In addition to a pandemic, another difference about this April is that all three main monotheistic religions are having major holy days. For most Christians, Easter was April 12. However, for those ...

The Dictionary of Religion is an encyclopædia of Christian and other religious doctrines, denominations, sects, heresies, ecclesiastical terms, history, biography, etc., and is edited by the Rev.

(RNS) — Jonathan Z. Smith, a historian and theorist of religion widely admired for his analytic rigor in comparing religions, has died. He was 79. Smith, who died Saturday (Dec. 30), was the author of ...