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- The Ark Before Noah
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, this encyclopedia covers world religious leaders and scholars — past and present — in the United States and the world. An essential reference for the study of the anthropology, psychology, politics, or sociology of religion.
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- From Cave Paintings to the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
- God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt.
- How The Gods Were Made
A Study in Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1929
- Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
- Karl Marx and the Iroquois
An essay on Marx's Ethnological Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today's communist movement.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27
Engels 1890 - 1895
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1895
Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany
- A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
- A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
- The Meek and the Militant
Religion and Power Across the World
Resource Type: Book
This wide-ranging comparative study of religion by an eminent American scholar opens with the Marxist critique of religion - its explanation of religion's origin and persistance, and how it has acted historically as a bulwark of the social order but also under certain circumstances as a revolutionary force. Part 2 examines the historical roots of Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism. Part 3 makes a similar study of Hinduism, and Part 4 examines the Soviet Union and China.
- Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.
- Noah's ark was round – so the ancient tablet tells us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum's 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood.
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- On Jews and Judaism in Crisis
Selected Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Quest for the Historical Jesus Begins Anew
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Scholars gathered this past weekend for the inaugural meeting of The Jesus Project in a renewed quest for the historical Jesus. The project is an effort by historians, biblical scholars, and theologians.
- Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Radical Jesus is arguably the first modern effort to convey through comic art the meaning of Jesus and his social message, not just in his own time, but also in the Radical Reformation, recent centuries, and in our own time.
- Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
- Sex, Drugs and Rollickin' Roles: Christmas and Our Ever-Changing Relationship with Nature
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The benefits of industrialisation have come at price as industry and technology the world over pushes nature further and further into ecological crises. Christmas has become the vehicle for the worst excesses of industrialisation, commercialisation and commodification.
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