Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple ...

If “paganism” sounds like one specific religion with a clear founder and a tidy instruction manual… surprise! It’s actually ...

Gore Vidal’s 1954 novel Messiah presented a grimly satirical perspective on Christian history. It imagined a near-future world in which Christianity is challenged and overthrown by a doomsday cult ...

Here are some generally agreed-upon facts about religious trends in the United States. Institutional Christianity has weakened drastically since the 1960s. Lots of people who once would have been ...

Easter arrives this year on Sunday, April 17, 2022, but if you think Easter started as a Christian holiday, think again. The history and origins of how Easter began aren't rooted in what Christians ...

The West once was pagan and then became Christian; historically, it is the pagan-Christian West. Today, in contrast, it has become the Christian-pagan West. No century was ever more misjudged than the ...

What impact has Christianity had on sex for the last 2,000 years? That’s the question Kyle Harper, senior vice provost from the University of Oklahoma, will be addressing this Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the ...