Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should ...

Newsweek reported that he was the oldest living leader of a major religion. Pope Francis turned 88 this month. The Dalai Lama is 89. President Nelson is closing out his seventh year as the church ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Deborah Oleshansky with Jewish Federation of Nashville joins this edition of Issues of Faith to inform us about Judaism, the world's oldest Abrahamic religion.

Clues to what may have been the world’s first organized religion are scattered throughout Neolithic sites in southern Turkey, northern Syria, and Iraq. The most common icons were the dangerous ...