All culture arises out of religion. When religious faith decays, culture must decline, though often seeming to flourish for a space after the religion which has nourished it has sunk into disbelief . ...

Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of ...

That’s the opening line of Thomas Tweed’s encyclopedic new book Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age (Yale Univ., May 2025). It also describes his ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Religion: America in Rome. 15 minute read. TIME. February 25, 1946 12:00 AM GMT-5 (See Cover) “I think the time has come to fill the sad vacancies in the Sacred College.” ...

This civil religious inclusivity helps explain why we ban partisan political activity in U.S. military cemeteries — a ban Donald Trump was widely regarded as having violated in August, when he ...

Religion was a fundamental part of people's lives in the ancient world. Politically, socially, personally. Here is the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, king of the gods, in the form of ...

Farming in Ancient North America: A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent. A How-To for the Samurai: ...