Heavy metal band The Hu’s folk-metal music and warlike appearance are underlain by a shamanist spirituality and devotion to a sky deity.

RNS and AP partner on some religion news content. RNS is solely responsible for this story. But underlying their Hun metal ...

But underlying their Hun metal demonstrativeness is a shamanist spirituality and their devotion to the chief embodiment of sky deity Tengri, a folk pantheism they share with some 5% of Mongolians.

Baruch Spinoza, the renegade 17th century Jewish philosopher, was born in Amsterdam to parents who fled oppressive Portugal to live among the more tolerant Dutch. A young, nonconforming Spinoza ...