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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Entries in the Atlas: 31331

Bai-Ulgen and the Shaman's Sky Journey

Baktun, the Great Cycle

Balak and Balaam Named Directly as Evidence in God's Own Case

Balak: Balaam and the Blessing of Israel

Balam and Balaam

Balance of the Masculine and Feminine

Balanced High on the Toes

Balancing the Pillars in Practice

Balancing, and How Long It Can Go On

Balava, the Second Movable Karana

Baligon's Place Among The Seven Kings

Balinus the Talisman Maker

Bali's Protective Lion Spirit

Balor, Lughnasadh, and the Reach of His Name

Banished for Bleeding

Banister Fletcher Lines Up Every Style Side by Side

Banned by Law, Kept by Memory

Banned for a Century, Recovered by a Choirmaster

Banned for a Melody the Nazis Misread

Banned in 1872, Walking the Mountains Again

Banned in Five Places, Still on the Air in Most Others

Banned, Then Protected by Law

Banned, Then Restaged, a Festival's Two Separate Lives

Baptised, Renounced, and Reconciled

Baptism and the River

Baptism and the River Today

Baptism in the Holy Spirit

Baptism, and What the Argument Is Really About

Baptism, Concupiscence and the Immaculate Conception

Baptism, Folk Custom and the Rodnovery Revival

Baptism, Rome and a Quarrel That Outlived Him

Baptist Deacons And Congregational Polity

Baptized, Ordained and Buried From the Same Sanctuary

Bar Kokhba, and the Recitation of the Shema

Barakah in Quran, Hadith and Sufi Practice

Barakah in the Kitchen and in the Ledger

Barakah, Saint Veneration and Reformist Objection

Barbas, Marbas, and the Drift of a Name

Barbelo, Seth, and a Baptism of Ascent

Barbelo, the Craftsman, and the Race of Seth

Bard, the First Grade of Modern Druidry

Bare Skin or White Cloth

Bargains, One Whole Channel and the Same Four Quarters

Bargains, the Same Whole Channel Fixed to One Profile

Barong and Rangda: A Contest With No Winner

Bartholomew's Reading and Moscow's Objection

Basani and Basinde: Standing Won in Public

Bascom's Survey and What It Recorded

Basilica as an Honorific Title

Basins, Shovels, and a Great Sea of Bronze Cast for the Temple

Bastet and the Guardian Cat

Bathing the Deity

Batn al Hut, the Belly of the Fish

Batu Caves: a Diaspora Shrine to Murugan

Baumgarten's Coinage and the Moment Taste Became a Discipline of Its Own

Bava, First of the Movable Karanas

Bazchim in the Enochian System

Be, and It Is, and a Father's Vision of Sacrifice

Beaded in Sequins: The Serpents on a Vodou Flag

Beads Counted by Hand, Arrived at More Than Once

Beads for the Names and the Praises

Beadwork and Sacred Kingship

Bear Ceremonialism

Bear in Dream Interpretation

Bebbington's Four Marks, and the Argument About Them

Because: Not by Bread Alone

Becket, and a Communion That May Not Hold

Becket's Shrine, and the Trial of a Dead Man

Becoming by Grace What God Is by Nature

Becoming That Nobody Else Can Do for You

Becoming the Deity

Becoming the Global Standard

Becoming the God

Becoming the Sun Twelve Times a Night

Becoming What You Keep Company With

Bede in the Galilee Chapel, and the Prince-Bishops

Bede Is the Only Witness

Bede's Goddess and a Single Sentence

Bede's One Sentence, and Everything Hung on It

Befafes, Prince Of Tuesday In The Heptarchia