Many people saw it as an attack on religion, because the book made it impossible to believe that God created the world in seven days. Darwin put forward the theory that all life, including humans ...

How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war. In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics ...

(source) The academic study of religion as we know it today can be traced to the 19th century encounter of Western scholars and theologians with non-Western cultures. In the United States, departments ...

From the mid 19th century onwards, Anglican power was progressively ... With chapels the centre of most communal activities, religion seemed to be an aspect of cultural recreation.

Britain's one and only religious census was held in 1851 ... widespread notion that the majority of the inhabitants of mid 19th-century Wales were devout Nonconformists. The growth of the ...

Max Mueller’s interest in the study of comparative religion had a background in German Idealism. The latter, along with orientalism, also shaped the understanding of ancient religions among several ...

By the latter part of the 19th century, even many theologians accepted the fact of evolution and saw ways to reconcile evolutionary science and religion. Yet, Darwin's revolution -- perhaps the ...

Through intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary people, The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the ...

Many people saw it as an attack on religion, because the book made it impossible to believe that God created the world in seven days. Darwin put forward the theory that all life, including humans ...