We often think of religious membership as clear-cut and exclusive: A member of group A could not possibly also be a follower of group B. Conversely, a...

We often imagine the Jewish family of past generations to have been a bastion of stability and affection in uncertain times. However, at least in elev...

Language teachers make us believe that learning a language means learning a bunch of grammatical rules. But we all know that native speakers don't hav...

When we think about the Quran - the holiest religious book for a quarter of humanity - we rarely think about it as a visually-rich text. The Quran and...

What is a more familiar bodily phenomenon than the pulse? We are so accustomed to the sensation of our pulse that it is easy to think this was always ...

It is hard to imagine a world without the division into work days and holidays, or regular office hours (usually 9 to 5), extra hours, and free time. ...

We seem to have a pretty clear picture of the lives of women three or four hundred years ago. They were under the charge of their fathers until their ...

It sounds like a James Bond movie: Catholic priests as spies who collaborated with the secret police. Clergymen who met in secret with officers of the...