In his 2001 book Religion Explained, Pascal Boyer identifies that which gives spiritual beings importance in religion as not their perceived agency or power, but rather their possession of strategic information. Strategic ...

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus and visible evidence, large groups identifying as part of the Christian community, continue to reject the reality of the human-created climate crisis. These groups use the Bible ...

Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the concentration camp system established by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) remained on German soil, with many continuing to function in some capacity. ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was a pivotal event that changed the fabric of Iranian society and the history of the entire Middle East. Despite their far-reaching influence during the revolution, women are often misrepresented ...

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any single country in the world, currently numbered around 225 million (87.2% of the total population). The status of women among this religious community and among the country ...

This paper explores how population control is a harmful solution to the climate crisis. I seek to do this from a perspective of Catholic Environmental Ethics, while focusing on the ways in which the effects of climate ...

The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap on the scholarship about the global movement to reinstate the higher ordination of women in Buddhism. More specifically, regarding the history of the Sakyadhita International ...

Thomas Aquinas’s thirteenth-century hierarchical view of an ordered cosmos, resembling a pyramid, positions abiota at its base, followed by plants, and then animals – ranked by levels of sentience and reason – with humanity ...