Religions

On the morning of May 6, 1527, 189 men stood between 20,000 mutinous imperial soldiers and the leader of the Catholic world. Armed with halberds and swords, they held their …

A religion founded on ahimsa — the sacred principle of non-violence — produced some of history’s most feared armies. The Shaolin monks of Tang-Dynasty China and Japan’s sōhei warrior monks …

On the morning of July 22, 1209, the soldiers of a papal army stood outside the walls of Béziers in southern France. They held a list of 222 names — …

Somewhere in the western suburbs of Sydney, a small group of people wades into an indoor swimming pool on a Sunday morning and re-enacts one of the oldest continuous religious …

Imagine a word so charged with fear that enemies of a medieval sect invented it as a slur — and it stuck so well it became a permanent fixture of …

Something curious happened inside a hospital basement in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the autumn of 1979. A molecular biologist who had spent years studying under Zen masters sat down with a …