Not technically slavery, but importing low-wage workers from areas with a fairly uniform population is about the same, this time it’s Hispanics instead of blacks, and they make them pay for their own crappy houses and cheap food, but the result is the same. A class of similar looking wo...
In other words, the Egyptians were writing satires of myths centuries before the wise Xenophanes began to criticize the Greek myths—which, as far as myths about gods are concerned, were themselves nothing but revised versions of what they had inherited from the Near East. That this is the ...
Our study cannot conclusively disentangle the role of vmPFC and TPJ. The TPJ effect on religion and empathy is only apparent in the mediation analyses. Most of our statistically significant results revealed the importance of the vmPFC for religiosity and in turn the effect of religiosity on empathy...
Sassanians were hostile to cult-statues and icons and removed such items from their temples and replaced them with altars and sacred fires. This campaign was resisted by the local population and was not entirely successful. Rock carvings at Naqsh-i Rustam shows Ahura Mazda mounted with crown on...
though at first a tolerant and wise ruler, toward the end of his reign had begun to persecute the Catholics. He had no male heir, and on his death there was not only antagonism between Arian Goths and Catholic Italians but also a rift within the ranks of the Ostrogoths, some of whom ...
As over 80% of the US population believe in God or a “higher power” (Collier et al., 2020), it is easy to see how pervasive religious beliefs can affect the health of many. Public health aims to mitigate the spread of infection through four main tenets: hand hygiene, social ...