promulgated a doctrine of radical gender equity born from their occult faith. During the 19th-century, among those members of the denomination known as Spiritualism, which included such prominent ...

From Mary Todd Lincoln to Jane Pierce, they were swept up in the spiritualism movement of the 19th century—a belief ... Taking on the occult.) Coolidge’s friends vehemently denied the ...

The occult has no place in Judaism ... “That understanding emerges out of particular conditions of 19th-century western Europe, and is an important part of Jewish history.

In supporting roles, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall, Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and an almost unrecognizable Robert Duvall, playing an expert in the occult, are all reliably entertaining.

It started as a courtly card game in 15th-century Italy, used in recreational settings and informed by the humanist culture of the period. It wasn’t until the 18th and 19th centuries that it became ...

There has been a surprising and consistent theme in several of Kacsymaryk’s rulings: the Comstock Act, a 19th-century sexual purity law that has lain dormant for more than a century. Last spring ...