In this excerpt, Virginia Krause, author of Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France (2015), explores how to become a witch.
Read MoreWith three villagers hanged on charges of witchcraft, nearby churches were set on a mission to discourage their parishioners from falling into the darker arts of witchcraft via annual sermons during the superstitious age of 16th Century England.
Read MoreIn this excerpt, Augustin Calmet, author of The Phantom World (2012), recalls the chilling story of blood-sucking vampires in 18th Century Hungary.
Read MoreTo the English-speaking beginner, the notion of masculine (henceforth>M.) and feminine (henceforth>F.) gender for Spanish nouns seems bewildering. Perhaps it should not be so. For in most European languages of Indo-European origin, and this includes Pashto, Hindi, among many others, but excludes Basque, Finnish, Hungarian or Turkish, gender distinction forms an integral part of grammatical […]
Read MoreCall it the ten year itch – of how an exceptional treatment given to India, through a nuclear deal, was consistently gainsaid by a section of the American strategic community, who predicted the certain unravelling of the non-proliferation edifice and instability in South Asia as a result of the deal. A decade after the US-India […]
Read MoreAmy Reynolds, the author of Free Trade and Faithful Globalization, discusses the impact and implication of trade agreements.
Read MoreSo if you're anything like Ernest Hemingway from 1926 to 1929, you've been traveling the world and taking up some exciting new hobbies: deep sea sportfishing in Cuba and duck hunting in the American Midwest. He chronicled his adventures--how many large fish he caught, how well the hunt went--in letters to friends and family members, collected in The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929.
Read MoreFind out more about the new editor of Scottish Journal of Theology (SJT) as he offers advice to authors, discusses where he sees the journal progressing and tells us what the most exciting currents in theology are today. Can you tell us some background about SJT and your connection to it? SJT has been a leading […]
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