The Inuit have survived and thrived for generations in one of most remote, vast and rugged places on Earth, hunting for seals ...

By the early part of the second century it appears that the Christians, because they're no longer being viewed as a sect of Judaism, are really being considered by their pagan neighbors as another ...

Pagans in northern Europe's Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries during the late medieval period to sacrifice in funeral rituals, a study has revealed. The research ...

After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in 966, the pagan celebrations of Kupala Night fell into disfavour. Nevertheless, efforts to ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

A truly underground Christianity would have remained insignificant.... The Weakness of Paganism Henry Chadwick assured his readers that "Paganism was far from being moribund when Constantine was ...

How did the custom get started? Christians see gift giving as a symbolic homage to the Three Wise Men's tributes to the baby Jesus. In the New Testament, the Magi are described as honoring the ...

That, in turn, has led to something quite unexpected for a country so proud of its long Christian traditions – the re-emergence of the Native Slavic Faith. Slavic Paganism was officially abandoned in ...

But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians, they were pagans. Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms. They thought that rhymes, potions, stones and jewels would protect them from evil spirits ...