Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s time for ...

A method used to study Egyptian fruit bats help two scholars understand the connections between the Talmud and Christian writings. To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that's little changed since its founding more than a millennium ...

Formed in 1202 by Bishop Albert of Riga, the Sword-Brothers were a brutal order of warrior monks sent to convert the Baltic pagans by force. With iron discipline and ruthless efficiency, they carved ...

Seven Buddhist monks, including three foreigners from India, Russia, and Romania, were killed in a cable car accident at the ...

The Sword of St. Michael, a line of sacred sites stretches mysteriously in perfect alignment from Ireland through Greece to the Holy Land.

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

FILE - Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

Bordering the 288 freeway as it crosses over the James River there is a Benedictine Abbey. In it live 15 men who have vowed their entire lives to a way of life called monastic. These men follow an ...

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...