Religion

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the earliest establishment figures to denounce the Nazi regime. In April 1945, his quiet resistance led him to the scaffold.

The cultural politics of papal Rome.

Tracing Karl Marx’s Jewish ancestry.

Intending to convert souls rather than punish them, the Jesuits were vital collaborators in the early modern Roman Inquisition.

In the Victorian countryside, what did going to church on Sundays actually mean?

Medieval French monarchs used – and abused – the charismatic power of religious women.

Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future. 

The devastating fire at Notre-Dame destroyed more than just bricks.

A study of cultish rituals in Roman Britain reveals a cross-fertilisation of religions.