Nairobi — At the recent state-funeral held for the Late Kenyan Vice-President, Michael Wamalwa, many Kenyans were baffled when a Biblical text was read from the Roman Catholic Bible's book of Wisdom.

In Continental Europe, the Old Testament Apocrypha has been one of the most popular and important sources of inspiration among artists. While apocryphal art is not nearly as common in Sweden, the ...

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...

Bd. 47, H. 1, Traders and the Exchange of Religious Ideas: Case Studies of Material Evidence (2017), pp. 135-148 (14 pages) This review article presents the recent German critical introduction to the ...