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The Ladder of Divine Ascent (detail), a fresco in the Kykkos monastery, Cyprus. Photo by Getty Where God dwelt For hundreds of years, Christians knew exactly where heaven was: above us and above the stars. Then came the new cosmologists by Stephen Case + BIO Aeon, 2 December 2022 Stephen Case is a historian of science at Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois and the director of the university h..

The Taking of Christ (1602) by Caravaggio. From left: John the Evangelist, Jesus and Judas Iscariot. The man depicted upper-right, holding the lantern, is thought to be a self-portrait of Caravaggio. Courtesy the National Gallery of Ireland/Wikipedia The imperative betrayal The mystery of why Judas forsook Jesus goes to the heart of Christianity. A newly translated gospel offers a new view by Da..

A Buddhist monk at Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) in Bangkok, May 2022. Photo by Matt Hunt/SOPA/Getty Buddhist missionaries Buddhist monks have mostly escaped the label of proselytisers, but they’ll still spread the word to those who seek them out by Brooke Schedneck + BIO Aeon, 11 August 2022 In the seminar room in Wat Suan Dok, I found one senior monk, Phra Kyo, standing alone amid a c..

Will Pope Francis resign? Here are some reasons to believe it—and some to be skeptical Colleen Dulle The America Magazine June 08, 2022 Pope Francis is pushed in a wheelchair by his aide, Sandro Mariotti, after giving the homily during Mass for the feast of Pentecost in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 5, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Pope Francis’ health has been a subject of speculatio..

Eggs, bunnies and Jesus Christ: the history and origins of Easter How does Easter relate to Jesus? Where does the word ‘Easter’ come from? And when did we start eating Easter eggs? Historian Emma J Wells explores the origins of this springtime celebration… History Extra Published: April 2, 2022 at 8:30 am Easter was originally a celebration of Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of sex, fertility, wa..

THE CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY OF FAITH HEALING By Mina Elwell Grunge Oct. 15, 2021 1:24 am EDT Faith healing is defined as "a method of treating diseases by prayer and exercise of faith in God." While people of any faith might pray for good health, faith healing is typically associated with forms of Christianity. Many scientific studies have been done attempting to determine if faith healing really ..

Buddha and Mind How a religious practice came to fascinate neuroscientists and gave birth to the mindfulness movement James Flynn Humanities Summer, 2021 Photo caption Vajrayana Buddhist meditation painting from eighteenth-century Tibet. —PvE / Alamy Stock In 1981, a team of American scientists, led by cardiologist Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School, traveled to the Himalayan regions of no..

Reincarnation now Modern mindfulness strips Buddhism of its spiritual core. We need an ethics of reincarnation for an interconnected world Avram Alpert Aeon 7 May 2021 Avram Alpert is a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program and the author of Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki (2019) and A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About L..

‘창녀 막달라 마리아’, 베드로의 질투가 만든 오명 한겨레신문 2020-12-12 [토요판] 이유리의 그림 속 권력 (1) 쥘 르페브르 ‘동굴 속의 막달라 마리아’ 예수 부활 처음 목격한 ‘성녀’ 남성 제자 공동체서 외면당해 ‘초대 교황’ 베드로 이후엔 아무렇게나 후려치는 존재로 ‘여성 영웅’ 부정하는 교회 막달라 마리아 성적대상화 용인 쥘 르페브르, , 1876년, 캔버스에 유채, 러시아 상트페테르부르크 에르미타주 박물관. 한 여성이 동굴 안에서 실오라기 하나 걸치지 않은 채로 비스듬히 누워 있다. 긴 머리를 풀어 헤치고 마치 자신의 온몸을 보여주려고 작정한 것처럼 두 팔까지 머리 쪽으로 들어 올렸다. 그녀는 누구일까? 그림 제목을 보면 깜짝 놀랄 것이다. . 예수가 십자가에 못 박힐 때 같이 있었고,..

Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?By Sumit Paul-ChoudhuryBBC, 2nd August 2019 Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next?Belief in “Big Gods” allowed the formation of societies made up of strangers (Credit: Getty Images) * This story is featured in BBC F..