Articles

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Long form writing on figures, events, ideas and controversies across every tradition the atlas covers, distinct from the shorter facts on the subject's own page. An article takes on a single topic in depth, from a saint's life to a doctrinal dispute to the history of a sacred site, usually running well beyond what a fact card can hold.

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An Echo of the Cross

An Economy, Not a Symbol

An Ecstatic Mystery Tradition

An Ecumenical Body, Not an Interfaith One

An Edict That Held for Less Than a Century

An Edited Talmud Text Founds a Center of Learning

An Educator Founds a Society and Dies in Prison for It

An Egyptian Outsider Becomes Head of a Babylonian Academy

An Egyptian Precedent, a Modern Curriculum

An Egyptologist Rewrites the Witch Trials

An Eighth Century Chronicle Records En no Gyoja's Banishment for Sorcery, Not a Miracle

An Eighth Century Jurist Whose Students Preserved His Teaching

An Eighth Day of Nothing in Particular

An Elder Is Not an Office

An Elder Still Teaching

An Elected Body With No Living Interpreter Above It

An Elected Committee With a Statute Behind It

An Elemental Archangel

An Elemental Archangel

An Elemental Archangel

An Elephant

An Emblem Doing More Work Than a Biography

An Emergence Story Told Many Ways

An Emperor at War

An Emperor Calls a Council

An Emperor Standardizes a Cult

An Emperor Under a Constitution That Separates State and Religion

An Emperor's Decree: Vaishravana as Protector of the Frontier

An Emperor's Walk, and Cauldrons That Still Cook

An Empire Carved Into Its Own Rocks

An Empire Falls, a Faith Loses Its State

An Empire That Called Itself Roman

An Empire Without Its Own Script

An Empress's Face on a Buddha

An Empty City Solves Its Own Problem: Romulus, the Asylum and the Sabine Women

An Empty Litter That Everybody Watched

An Empty Succession Held as the Movement's Intended Form

An Encyclical Addressed to Everyone

An Encyclopedia for a Religion Under Pressure

An Encyclopedia Written at Twenty-Seven

An Ending That Refuses a Simple Moral

An Enemy Taken into the Service of the God

An Engineer Turned Broadcaster Sets a Date Twice

An Engineer Who Became a God

An Engineer's Framing of an Unwelcome Question

An English Play That Was Never English First

An Engraving More Famous Than Its Book

An Episode Inside a Larger Tragedy

An Epithet Meaning Omniscient Marks an Unusually Wide Body of Work

An Era Counted From a Liberation

An Era That Begins With a Migration

An Era Whose Founder Is Still Argued Over

An Escalation Built from One Sanskrit Root

An Escaped Nun's Marriage Turns an Argument Into a Practice

An Esoteric Order and the Deaths of 1994-1997

An Established Church and a Reform That Failed in Liechtenstein

An Established Church in a Country That Has Left It

An Established Church Today

An Establishment the Rest of the Communion Does Not Share

An Eternal Attribute, Not a Created Thing

An Ethic of Responsibility

An Ethnography Written From Inside, Not About, the Community

An Evangelical Congregation and Disputed Abuse Allegations

An Evangelical Environmental Movement

An Evening Measure in the Second Half

An Evolutionary Scheme Later Scholarship Rejected

An Evolving Religious Civilization

An Exam the Dead Were Expected to Pass

An Examination That Starts With Thanks

An Excommunicated Emperor Who Won Jerusalem Without a Battle

An Exile Closes the Same Circle It Opened Decades Later

An Expansion, Not an Identity

An Experience, or an Interpretation of One

An Experiment That Began Failing While the Paint Was Still Wet

An Explorer's Second Career

An Extensive Plain on Which a Dense Fog Hangs, but the Fog

An Eye Against the Eye

An Eye Assembled From A Falcon And A Fraction

An Eye Hospital the Order Built to Answer One Region's Need

An Eye Torn Out and an Eye That Watches