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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Two Manuscripts, and Two Kinds of Silence

Two Maps of the Same Preaching

Two Martinisms, and a Great Many Obediences

Two Meals, and the Money They Would Have Cost

Two Men Engaged in a Fight

Two Men Named Perses in One Poet's Own Family

Two Men Running a Race

Two Men Turning a Handle of a Crane from the Jib

Two Men Who Ended a War of Vengeance

Two Messengers, Two Messages

Two Methods, Two Layers of Text

Two Michaels, and One of Them Is Real

Two Million Interviews and the Most Cited Name in Religious Polling

Two Minerals, One Word

Two Modes of Steadfastness, and Which One the Seat Requires

Two Monks Return From Tang China

Two Morae, and Why the Inscriptions Keep Them Apart

Two More Crowdfunded Decks After The Light Seer's Tarot

Two More Surahs Fit End to End

Two Movements That Fought Each Other, Then Merged

Two Movements, One Century

Two Named for the Tortoise and One Named for a Direction

Two Names for One King

Two Names for One Star, Before Anyone Knew They Matched

Two Names, and Everything the Gods Own

Two Names, One Building, and the Massacre That Divided It

Two Narratives, and a Word in Isaiah

Two National Movements and a Shared Holy City

Two Nations, One Ceremony

Two Natures Settled, Then a Further Question

Two Natures, and What Hangs on Them

Two Natures, Two Qnome, One Parsopa

Two Nights, One Night, and a Scroll from Samaria

Two Norito Preserved in the Engishiki, a Recurring Purification and a Vanished Protective Rite

Two Norse Religious Poems, a Skaldic Praise Poem and a Prayer in a Pagan Voice

Two Novenas with a Promise Attached

Two Obediences, Then Three

Two Objects No Single Tradition Owns

Two of the Largest Religious Canons Ever Assembled

Two Offerings and a Field

Two Old Promises Undo a Coronation

Two Orders, and the Work Each One Does

Two Organisations, Two Projects

Two Organizations, Two Different Satanisms

Two Origins, One Conviction

Two Origins, One Name

Two Overwhelming Encounters With the Divine Presence

Two Panchen Lamas, Three Decades Apart

Two Paths Up, and Three Traditions at the Top

Two Patriarchs, Two Successions Secured Near Death

Two Peoples, One River

Two Peoples, Two Religions, on One Northern Ground

Two Persons or One, and What Ephesus Actually Settled

Two Phases, Six Centuries Apart, and a Buddha Who Could Not Be Shown

Two Pilgrimages, the One Practiced and the One Prescribed

Two Plants, One Name, and the Flower of the Sun

Two Plants, One Objection

Two Portraits: Griaule's Dogon and the Restudy

Two Postures, One Animal, and the Habit of Pairing

Two Powers From Different Peoples of Siberian Shamanic Tradition

Two Powers, One Harmony

Two Prayers, Two Registers

Two Priesthoods, One Ancestry

Two Priests from Opposite Ends of India

Two Priests, One Temple, Three Teachings

Two Principles Leave No Room for a Creator

Two Principles That Do Not Reduce to One

Two Principles, Three Moments

Two Prison Terms, Forty Three Years Apart

Two Proceedings, Seventeen Years Apart

Two Prophets, One Cultural Region

Two Prophets, Two Centuries Apart

Two Punjabi Cities Carrying Sikhism's Founding and Its Fifth Guru's Death

Two Purification Formulas Standing Apart From Shinto's Own Ordinary Norito

Two Quarters, Two Triplicities

Two Questions, Not One

Two Questions, Not One

Two R Sounds, Held Apart

Two Rakahs Before a Decision

Two Readings of the Same Restriction