Rituals of purification or moral cleansing are common in many religious traditions. For example, ritual washing before prayer, public worship, (re)inclusion, or other religious activities is present ...

Every year, people throughout the world celebrate Easter, but Easter is incomplete without Good Friday — a day considered sacred by millions of Americans. On Good Friday, Christians remember the ...

For most Africans the concepts of sin, guilt and the afterlife, were new. In Africa, when one sinned, it was a mere annoyance. Often, an animal sacrifice would allow for the sin to be forgiven. In the ...