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Ralph Fiennes has mastered the craft of playing a villain over the years, whether it be Tom Riddle himself, SS officer Amon ...

A newly compiled dataset quantitatively captures witchcraft beliefs in countries around the world, enabling investigation of key factors associated with such beliefs. A newly compiled dataset ...

This is not something I knew when I washed up on the banks of the Ganges at the age of twenty-three, looking for my own ...

Christian Reconstructionism is a theological and political movement within conservative Protestantism arguing that society should be governed by biblical principles, including the application of ...

Rushdoony’s ideas were born from a radical interpretation of Reformed Christianity — a branch of Protestant Christianity that follows the teachings of John Calvin and other reformers. It emphasizes ...

1 Department of Political Science, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, Assam, India. 2 Dept. of Political Science, Kumar Bhaskar Varma Sanskrit and Ancient Studies University, Nalbari, Assam, India.

Occultus, the Latin root for “occult,” points to the hidden and the obscured—an apt source for a word steeped in mystery. For centuries after the term’s wider adoption, it has continued to suggest the ...

The fear of witchcraft led to centuries of persecution and executions across Europe. While there were an estimated 500 executions in England, and between 3,000 and 4,000 killings in Scotland, only ...

Just in time for the release of the horror thriller The Conjuring: Last Rites, bookings are being accepted for overnight stays in the late Ed and Lorraine Warren’s “Conjuring House” in Connecticut. As ...