The concept of religion has played a significant role in shaping the development of many societies. In some nations, religion continues a central part of everyday life, whilst in others very much ...

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and ...

Jenkins’ selected one of the medieval maps of the “Christian world”—shaped like a three-petaled flower with Jerusalem at the center. How the map has shifted! To see this at a glance, click here to ...

She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, fertility and birth rate issues around the world, multiple disease ... Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening ...

It's the perfect place to start the question we're going to be looking at this week - how the world map of religion was re-drawn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And at the basis of ...