A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple was found during excavations in the ancient hilltop town of Spello, which is ...

It is generally understood that Christianity strengthened its position early on in the popular mind by usurping and bending pagan rituals and sacred locales. In this ambitious scholarly treatise ...

Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

The resurrection of life in the spring is a common theme among Christian and pagan beliefs. MediaNews Group via Getty Images What’s in a name The name Easter may have pagan origins. “Although ...

A 1,400-year-old stone cross has been found at a site that is challenging perceptions of where Christianity spread to during ...

But while magic in antiquity existed in a diverse religious milieu that included pagan, Christian, and Jewish influences, magic has existed in a primarily Christian context for the past thousand years ...

Pieter Willem van der Horst, The Pagan Opponents of Christianity on the Book of Genesis, Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2018), pp. 318-336 ...