Religion

Whether a museum or mosque, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has been a monument to selective readings of Turkey’s history.

Was Nero the Antichrist? The bestial image of the Roman emperor as the enemy of Christians persists, but the truth is more complex.

Views of the afterlife in early Christianity.

The cultural politics of papal Rome.

Tracing Karl Marx’s Jewish ancestry.

With the aim of converting souls rather than punishing them, the Jesuits were vital collaborators in the 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.