Lithuania was famously the final pagan state in Europe. While the rest of the continent converted to Christianity, Lithuania remained officially pagan until Catholicism was adopted in AD 1387. Despite ...

In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting ...

The West once was pagan and then became Christian; historically, it is the pagan-Christian West. Today, in contrast, it has become the Christian-pagan West. No century was ever more misjudged than the ...

It is often said that paganism disappeared after the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. But the reality was far more ...

Mr. Caldwell is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties” and “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.” See ...

"Byzantine. By the same hand. (Encaustic, G.B.G. 7 x 9.) Representing the triumph of Christianity over Paganism. Saints Dicaterina and Mercurios, whose names are given, are spearing the Roman emperors ...

It is generally understood that Christianity strengthened its position early on in the popular mind by usurping and bending pagan rituals and sacred locales. In this ambitious scholarly treatise, ...