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Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may...

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual...

The Creation of Adam (Italian: Creazione di Adamo), also known as The Creation of Man,: plate 54  is a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo,...

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms...

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called...

Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly...

The Rajneesh movement is a religious movement inspired by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931–1990), also known as Osho. They used to be known...

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world. The missionary efforts and...

Mormon feminism is a feminist religious social movement concerned with the role of women within Mormonism. Mormon feminists commonly advocate for a more...

Death by sawing is the act of sawing or cutting a living person in half, either sagittally (usually midsagittally), or transversely. Different methods...

"Open sesame" (French: Sésame, ouvre-toi; Arabic: افتح يا سمسم, romanized: iftaḥ yā simsim) is a magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty...

Texts of the Baháʼí Faith use a standard system of orthography to romanize Persian and Arabic script. The system used in Baháʼí literature was set in 1923...

Sabancı Merkez Camii (English: Sabancı Central Mosque) in Adana is the second largest mosque in Turkey.[failed verification] The exterior of the mosque...

The Banu Taghlib (Arabic: بنو تغلب), also known as Taghlib ibn Wa'il, were an Arab tribe that originated in Jazira. Their parent tribe was the Rabi'a,...

Igrot Kodesh (literally "Holy Epistles" but more commonly known as "Letters of the Rebbe") is a collection of correspondence and responses of the seventh...

An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture is a dissertation by the English mathematician and scholar Isaac Newton. This was sent in...

Aleister Crowley wrote The Gnostic Mass — technically called Liber XV or "Book 15" — in 1913 while travelling in Moscow, Russia. He described it as representing...

Arifile Mosque (Bengali: আড়িফাইল মসজিদ, Arabic: مسجد عارفايل) is in Sarail Upazila at Brahmanbaria District, Bangladesh, founded by Shah Arif in 1662...

Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology, also spectral studies, spectralities, or the spectral turn) is a range of ideas referring to the return...

St Margaret's Church is an Anglican church in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is the ancient parish...