Tom Beaudoin, the liberal Catholic theology professor at Fordham who has been protesting with Occupy Wall Street (you might remember his recent call for Catholics to “occupy” their own parishes), has ...

Saints and Syncretism in Global Christian Art explores the cult of saints and its impact on visual culture through a phenomenon called syncretism, a process by which artists integrate diverse cultural ...

I’d argue that a central bane of civilization is an obsession with purity. Captivating the human imagination, purity grounds folly, death and misery. How much money have empires, kingdoms, kings, ...

Hanukkah isn’t for everyone. This has been true since its beginnings, as it celebrates victory in internecine military conflict and a triumph over assimilation. Even so, the majority of the 15 million ...

The Rigveda enumerates 33 devas or ‘shining ones’, representing primarily the forces of nature. Of these, three were important: Agni or fire, Indra or rain, and Soma, a plant. The popular deities ...

Today we will look at a fancy word and how it really means something nowadays. Syncretism can be defined as the blending of two or more traditions into a new system of belief or practice. It’s ...

Rumi's philosophy embodies the core of Sufism, advocating for universal acceptance and compassion. The article discusses how Sufism can address global conflicts by embracing diverse beliefs without ...

Why this ‘new spirituality’ is really just old-fashioned syncretism. After waking up in the middle of the night to the high-pitched cries of my sweet daughter, I rolled out of bed to warm a bottle.