Religion

A Bodhisattva is a compassionate Buddhist deity who walks among us.

The grand funeral of Anne of Cleves, the neglected fourth queen of Henry VIII, took place during the reign of Mary Tudor, when English Catholicism was resurgent.

The central paradox to the story of Adam and Even is that, the more reality they take on, the more they are shown to be fiction.

The arrival of a Christian mission on the island of Dobu in Papua New Guinea was met with ambivalence, but it resulted in a mixing of cultures and the development of new traditions.

A vivid account of groundbreaking archaeological excavations at a Scottish site of crucial importance to the North Sea world.

The coverage of a disaster in Chile revealed religious divisions among the world’s press.

A short introduction to the Chinese ethical system.

Medieval understanding of the soul and the body meant that a saintly life was a life of physical restrictions. Katherine Harvey explores the extreme suffering bishops put themselves through, from weeping and celibacy to starvation and, sometimes, death.