Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama can choose the body into which he is reincarnated. His succession plan is ...

Not only Great Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark or Prussia have a Royal past. Bavaria was a monarchy, too. "Gott mit dir, du Land der Bayern, deutsche Erde, Vaterland!" are the ...

We cannot prove the (non-)existence of God, but we can ask what might happen if we played strategic games with Him.

Witness the remarkable transformation of scrap into legend as we forge the mythical ANUBIS sword from a rusted, discarded hook. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife, this blade isn't ...

Sociologists of religion present a new edition of one of the most comprehensive empirical studies of religious trends across the world – Detlef ...

Beyond its culinary use in South Africa, honey held profound symbolic meaning in ancient Egypt, representing love, marriage, ...

Filmmaker Wes Anderson is a man of idiosyncratic yet consistent tastes. Through films like “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “The ...

Journey deeper into the dark corners of mythology as we continue exploring gods of death from around the world. From ancient legends to underworld rulers, discover more deities linked to death, the ...

These stars all say that their near-death experiences briefly took them to the afterlife, a completely different realm from ...

Dolly Parton is said to be chatting to the ghost of her late husband Carl Dean whose spirit she is convinced is looking over ...

An Arizona man accused of brutally killing a pastor thinks God will forgive him and wants to to be executed so he can “get ...

Anyone who reads the Bible has come to know the parables of Christ. These are basically short stories, designed to draw people in using common everyday scenarios so that people ...