In many middle-income countries, majorities say the Bible, Quran or another religious text should influence national law at ...

When we read glacial texts as sites of cultural memory ... not only the liturgy confirming the gospel, but a connected symbol to the sacred wisdom of the whole life of the community.” He describes ...

Christian converts in Kosovo ... The double-headed eagle symbol of Albania decorates the steeple and also a screen behind the altar. “It is time for us to return to the place where we belong ...

The Nazi version, tilted and associated with the atrocities of the Holocaust, has become a symbol of hate. However, the symbol on RM's badge is a straight-standing swastika, which holds sacred and ...

Denmark has dropped the Three Crowns, a national symbol of Sweden since the 14th century, from its own coat of arms. In Denmark, the Three Crowns symbolises the union between Sweden, Denmark and ...

Pomegranates. Credit: Joergens.mi/Wikimedia commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Smashing a pomegranate on New Year’s Day is an ancient Greek custom that continues to this day as the red-colored, nutritious fruit is ...

It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native ...

Both are ceremonial, ritualistic processes as is the design. Beautiful as it is, its purpose is to present sacred symbols and deities in a formal, geometric pattern within a circle. This mandala's ...