Mike Hassell

The religious practices and understandings of small indigenous societies are recognized by many to be in no way inferior to other religious beliefs. Many...

Newton was a natural philosopher (the word ';scientist' had not yet been coined) who described a planetary system held together by gravitational forces. His...

As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo...

Confucius (551-479 BCE) taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid twentieth...

Islam today is a rapidly growing religion: Indonesia, the most populous Islamic land, has well over 100 million Muslims. Islam means ';submission to the will...

Protestant Christianity began in the early sixteenth century as a reform movement directed against Roman Catholic doctrines and practices. Early leaders such...

There are three main ethical theories of family. Natural Law says that our human nature is to unite in marriage with a person of the opposite sex for the...

Human history displays recurrent conflicts between nations, cultures, races, religions, and classes; even men and women with similar cultural backgrounds...

Since Marco Polo, the fabled markets of China have drawn the west like a magnet. This ancient culture has been colonized by foreign powers, buffeted by war...

Leon Walras (18341910) transformed economics from a literary discipline into a mathematical, deterministic science. For the first time, Walras expressed the...

The early myths of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor, Canaan, Greece, and Rome have greatly and continuously influenced all of Western culture and civilization....

As one of the world's most ancient civilizations, India presents a rich mosaic of political, religious, and cultural influences. In 1947, this vast region...

Judaism is more than a religion; it is a civilization, including a people, a language, unique laws, a system of ethics, custom, a homeland, and a theology....

St. Thomas Aquinas is known for producing history's most complete system of Christian philosophy. In the late thirteenth century, this quiet, reflective...

Institutionalism is an economic point of view that emphasizes the role of social organization and structure in modern economic life. Thorstein Veblen...

Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have definite causes. Then Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, joined...

Alexander von Humboldt and other sparked a centuries-long debate about natural history and geological destiny by discussing what today we call the...

North, Central, and South American Indians have a rich religious heritage, though much has been lost since these peoples were conquered by Europeans....

The traditional religion known as Shinto was present in Japan from prehistoric times, long before Buddhism and other traditions arrived from the Asian...