(The Conversation) — Mandaeans are followers of ancient Gnostic religion, whose traditional homeland was the region of Iraq and Iran. Today, this small minority lives in many parts of the world, ...

What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

Father Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., is a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission, an accomplished professor of theology, and a prolific author. His most recent book is Jesus ...

Never did I imagine that I would one day be writing about the intersection between gnosticism and canola oil, but it seems that my hand has been forced, so here we are. Permit me to explain. I was ...

March 11, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — "Recognized as the ultimate cult television show, The Prisoner remains, forty years after its original airing, a masterpiece," begins an article co-authored by ...

In March 2021 Pope Francis became the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to visit Iraq. The number of Christians in Iraq has fallen sharply in the past two decades amid mass violence at the ...