Many of today's villages and towns in Central Europe trace their origins to settlements that emerged after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, often on former Roman territory or in the immediate ...

Over the past two centuries, Europe has become increasingly secular. Scholars in fact no longer talk of the Christian West when they speak of Modern Europe and North America, but of the Secular West.

Was it murder, a burial, an accident or even a religious sacrifice? Around 60 bog bodies in Germany tell stories from long ago. Some of the details are astonishing and science was not always entirely ...

Russians have always lived with dvoeverie, the Christian and pagan "double faith," which appears not only in devotions and liturgical practices, but above all in the people's attitudes towards life's ...

The migration of the Germanic tribes reshaped Europe, but what drove them to leave their homelands and move south and west? This video explores the mix of climate shifts, population pressures, Roman ...

How Christian Smith’s concept of a “Millennial Zeitgeist” helps explain their recent retreat from faith. I doubt I’m the only parent of Gen Zers who occasionally hears the protest “I’m not feelin’ it” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nazis, in short, were obsessed with legend and magic. Consider the swastika itself: First written about in Germany by the ...

Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel, as a kind of “Camelot” for the triumphal knights of ...

(RNS) — Traditional religion may be destined for the walls of the Cracker Barrel, a space filled with nostalgic advertisements for products of yesteryear, like Victrolas, lace antimacassars or butter ...