Written by Liam Blackshaw, Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. In an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists of Connecticut, Thomas Jefferson spoke of a ‘wall of separation between church and State’, which guaranteed the religious freedom of the Baptists despite their…
Category: Volume 7 Issue 7.2
The 1979 Iranian Revolution: Islamic Revolution or Failed Liberal Revolution?
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Written by Emma Ward. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. The 1979 Iranian Revolution shocked the world. One of the reasons Iran was so shocking was that it was completely opposed to the archetypal European revolutionary tradition. It did not create a…
Nichiren in Medieval Japan and his Legacy
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Written by Dmitry Filippov. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. The rise of the samurai in the late 12th century heralded profound change for religious life in medieval Japan. The nadir of the Imperial court’s opulent and refined culture and way of…
The 9th Century Papacy and the divorce of Lothar II
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Written by Alex Traves. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. Lothar II was King of Lotharingia, the lands between modern day France and Germany, between 855 and 869. His father, Lothar I, had been the Holy Roman Emperor, and while he was…