What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

Morpheus, a man with circular mirrored glasses, approaches Neo Anderson, a young man who feels something is wrong with the world. “You are a slave, Neo,” the man continues. “You, like everyone else, ...

gnōsis, knowledge) refers to diverse, syncretistic religious movements in antiquity consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that the material cosmos was created by an ...

This week your professor continues a very brief introduction into the early rivals of Christianity. We know of a great many religious cults which existed in ancient times, most of which have vanished ...

I was assigned to build my own religion. And sometimes I get carried away with my projects. <BR>This is what I've outlined so far, and I want to flesh it out and create a mythology and "universe" for ...

The release in 1992 of celebrity literary critic Harold Bloom’s The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation was less than the smashing success that both the author and Simon & ...