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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A Book That Names Its Own Makers

A Book That Never Stopped Being Used

A Book That Outlived Disestablishment

A Book That Outlived Its Argument

A Book That Was Not Scripture Until It Was Made One

A Book Used a Few Days a Year, Historically Shared Rather Than Owned

A Book Venerated as Object

A Book With a Political Afterlife

A Book with Half Its Pages Missing

A Book With Two Different Lengths

A Book Without the Name of God

A Book Written in a Script That Barely Fits the Language

A Book Written to Accompany a Deck

A Book Written to Be Read Two Ways

A Book Written to Destroy What It Preserves

A Book, a Calendar and the People Who Still Keep It

A Book, a Legend, and an Amulet Against Fire

A Boon With One Loophole

A Borrowed Book With One New Voice Inside It

A Borrowed Bowl and an Invented History

A Borrowed Camera and a Shower Curtain: TBN's First Broadcast

A Borrowed Word Reforged

A Boston Pastor Wrote His Tradition's First Full History

A Boundary Marker and a Home for the Kachina

A Bowl of Sacred Stone, a Stem Kept Apart Until Use

A Boy Chorister Becomes a Sistine Chapel Singer

A Boy General at Hara Castle

A Boy King's Name on a Decree

A Boy Puts Away the Purple Border

A Boy Told He Was Known Before He Was Formed

A Boy Trapped in a Spiral He Was Only Half Taught

A Boy Who Asks About Death

A Boycott of a Papal Port Turns Jewish Communities' Economic Power Into a Weapon

A Boy's Song in Chaucer

A Branch Documented Late and Unevenly

A Branch of a Language, Called a People

A Branch of Faith

A Branch of the Kongo Religion of Cuba

A Branch That Behaves Like a Family

A Break About Jurisdiction Before It Was About Doctrine

A Break From the Rabbinate That Became a Federation

A Break in the Mourning of the Omer

A Breakaway Study Group Reaches Toward Interfaith Dialogue

A Bridge Between Enos And Omni

A Bridge Between Two Styles of Teaching

A Bridge Builder Funds His Work by Founding an Art Form

A Bridge of Stones, a War of Days

A Bridge Position with Few Full-Time Residents

A Bridge That Crossed into Another Faith

A Brief War's Long Shadow: Restraint and the Origins of the Red Cross

A Broadcast Ministry That Reached Millions, Then a Confession Reached More

A Broader Term Narrowed

A Bronze Age Chariot That May Show Her Ancestor

A Bronze Vessel, and What It Was For

A Brooklyn Preacher Builds a Compound in Rural Georgia

A Broom Carried So No Insect Is Crushed by Sitting

A Brother Sold for Silver, Named Without Being Named

A Brotherhood That May Never Have Existed, and the Tradition It Founded Anyway

A Brush That Paints Miracles Back Into the World

A Buddha's Head, Held by a Tree's Roots

A Buddhist Structure, Filled with Daoist Content

A Buddhist Temple Keeps the Shinto Book

A Buddhist Temple Keeps the Shinto Chronicle

A Budget Built Almost Entirely on Gifts and Legacies

A Budget That Draws Down Its Own Reserves

A Budget That Nearly Balances Itself

A Budget the Size of the Founder's Original Appeal

A Building Designed to Protect What It Displays

A Building Distinct From the Meetinghouse

A Building Made to Hold a Crown

A Building Nobody Can Excavate

A Building You Read by Walking, and an Argument About What It Is

A Bull Pawing Up the Earth

A Bull Without a Heart Warns of a Day in March

A Bundle Assembled to Be Given Away

A Bundle of Twigs Held Through the Whole Rite

A Bureau Built to Say No

A Burial Refused, and a Cemetery Levelled

A Buried City Changed What Was Known

A Buryat at the Court of the Dalai Lama