Aspects of the ancient heretical religion of Gnosticism are common in movies and video games –from Star Wars to Titanic to The Legend of Zelda.  This year’s reboot of Superman does not deviate from ...

This week your professor continues a very brief introduction into the early rivals of Christianity. We know of a great many religious cults which existed in ancient times, most of which have vanished ...

This sprawling conspiracy theory traces the influence of ancient Egyptian and gnostic ideologies concerning a dualistic, Manichean cosmos prefiguring the earthly order, knowable only through secret, ...

Never did I imagine that I would one day be writing about the intersection between gnosticism and canola oil, but it seems that my hand has been forced, so here we are. Permit me to explain. I was ...

Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” arrives at a crucial juncture for American liberalism. In this timely and incisive work, Mounk confronts the rising ...

The Mandaeans are one of the world’s oldest surviving religious groups, with roots in ancient Gnostic traditions. Centered around the veneration of John the Baptist and a dualistic cosmology of light ...