October 2022 - The Religious History Nerd

October 29, 2022

This is a continuation of A Brief History of Christian Nationalism that will look at...

October 27, 2022

Christian nationalism is much in the news these days, at least in the United States....

October 23, 2022

Watch out for presentism in religious history. "Presentism" in history is judging the past by...

October 19, 2022

The last post was on the history of witches and how the European witch was...

October 17, 2022

Let's explore the history of witches, the queens of Hallowe'en. Witches inhabit spaces where religion...

October 15, 2022

This post tells the story of publishing Jewish books in 16th century Venice. What was...

October 11, 2022

This is the third column in a series that explores how the invention of printing...

October 08, 2022

This is the second part of a series on how printing technology changed the course...

October 07, 2022

Religion stumbled along for centuries before the invention of printing technology. Before printing was invented,...

October 02, 2022

What is the connection between natural disasters and religion? The world's scriptures often mention natural...

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