Jack Parsons, one of the “suicide squad” trio of young rocket-boy founders of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had an improbable extracurricular life.

If our conception of hell was absent from Christianity at the time the religion was born, whence exactly does it hail?

Drawing on traditions of monastic power, Modi’s party is trying to promote the image of India as a vishwaguru, or teacher to the world.

Sometimes the pursuit of gender equality requires a little witchcraft.

Because relics were understood to be capable of working miracles, any relic that was stolen must have wanted to be.

There is a long history of leftist thinkers embracing Satan, usually just as a way to shake up political rhetoric.

Hierakonpolis, the capital of Upper Egypt during the Predynastic period, is the site of the world’s first zoo.