Walter Harrelson

Some thirty to forty percent of Africans practice traditional religions, many of which survived transportation into the West with the slave trade by...

Buddhism began with Gotama the Buddha in the sixth century BCE and has developed two chief forms. Theravada (or Hinayana) is found especially in Sri Lanka,...

Christianity arose within the social and spiritual dislocation of the Roman Empire. Jesus, perceived by authorities as a threat to public stability, was...

Hinduism is a very broad term for the religious practices and doctrines of the Indian people. This tradition is believed to have begun circa 1800 BCE with...

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

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...

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

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....

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...