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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Eight Centuries From Covadonga to Granada

Eight Cities From Hittite Gods to Byzantine Councils and Sufi Devotion

Eight Cities Where One Church Was Founded, Defined and Contested

Eight Classical Forms, Not All of Them Approved

Eight Compendia and Chronicles That Are Not Scripture

Eight Complete Manuscripts Behind the Greek, Hebrew and Coptic Bibles and One Illuminated Haggadah

Eight Councils Whose Very Numbering Splits the Tradition

Eight Days of Drawing In

Eight Days That Became a Century

Eight Days, and What Will Not Move It

Eight Dream Symbols Naming What a Dreamer Does Rather Than What They See

Eight Faces, and the Dual of the Cube

Eight Factors, Three Trainings

Eight Formulas of Daily Liturgy, Two Turning on a Name Never Pronounced

Eight Formulas of Islamic Devotional Speech, Two of Them Recorded as Closed

Eight Hairs, and a Hill That Burmese Politics Has to Pass Through

Eight Hijri Months Outside the Four Sacred Months, and What Lunar Drift Does to Their Names

Eight Hundred Works, Finished by Sussmayr

Eight Images Divided Between the Venerated and the Debunked

Eight Iraqi Cities Carrying Four Thousand Years of Religious Memory

Eight Limbs and a God Who Does Not Create

Eight Myths of Death, Descent and What Follows

Eight Named Groups, One Law

Eight of Them, and the Lists Do Not Agree

Eight or Twenty, and How It Came to Be

Eight Oscars, and a Historian's Objection

Eight Plays for One God

Eight Points and a Judaism Without a Nation

Eight Points in November 1885

Eight Roads to the Same Place

Eight Spokes of a Modern Wheel

Eight Symbols, Offered As A Set

Eight Tricksters From Eight Unrelated Traditions

Eight Visions and an Angel Who Explains Them

Eight White Handing On to Nine Purple

Eight Words And A Debated Poem

Eight Words That Made Headlines Before They Were Checked

Eight Works That Argue About Religion From Outside It

Eight, Regeneration and the Balance

Eighteen Apparitions at Massabielle

Eighteen Books and the Five Marks They Are Meant to Have

Eighteen Books, of Which the War Is a Minority

Eighteen Chapters in Which Nothing Moves

Eighteen Characters Built on Sixteen

Eighteen Months as a Guru Who Did Not Exist

Eighteen Months of Twenty, and Five Days Over

Eighteen of the Twenty Seven Daily Yogas Classed as Favourable

Eighteen Runes That No One Carved

Eighteen Twenty Day Months and Five Days Nobody Wanted

Eighteen Visions That Made a Village a Shrine

Eighteen Visits to a Grotto

Eighteen Years in Three Periods

Eighteen Years of Farming, and a Corridor That Opens and Closes

Eighteen Years, and an Honest Report of Failure

Eightfold

Eighth Grade and the First Amendment, Decided Unanimously

Eighth of Ten, and the Sphere of Hod

Eighth of the Twelve, the Artist's Sign

Eights Across the Traditions

Eighty Four Lines Across Four Languages

Eighty One Volumes of the Spirit World, Written in Two Halves

Eighty Six Sermons That Never Reach the End of the Book

Eighty Three Years Under One Roof

Eighty Years of Discipline Shapes an Abbot's Own Voice

Eighty-Eight Elsewhere, and a Modern Abuse

Eighty-Four Thousand

Eighty-One Books, and Why the Count Still Moves

Eighty-One Elsewhere

Eighty-One, and What the Number Is Doing

Eileithyia in Myth and Cult Practice

Ekadashi, the Day of Fasting

Ekine and the Water Spirits Who Come to Dance

Ekpe Carried Across the Atlantic

Ekpe: Title Society of the Cross River

El Cobre, a Copper Mine, a Shrine and Two Names for One Devotion

El Salvador and the Road to Santiago

El Under a Hittite Name: Elkunirsa

El, and the God of Israel

El, Baal and the Cycle from Ugarit

Elders and Assemblies Rather Than Bishops