"Positivist historiography defined the belief in witches as a mass psychosis that happened to mix Christian ideas and …"

"The complex process that has led to the current spread of magic and esotericism is constituted on the one hand by sec…"

"Italy, the unchallenged fiefdom of Catholicism until World War II, has gradually seen the emergence of a new religiou…"

"While Positivism was founding the social sciences (proclaiming the death of theology) and Marxism was instigating the…"

"Eusapia Palladino's popularity went into crisis in Cambridge, where during a séance the medium was caught moving an o…"

"However great this addition to the number of facts serving to elucidate the natural history of these most interesting…"

"The apparent function of the Diatomacae in the economy nature, viz. to vivify, as it were, the immensity of the ocean…"

"Castracane was a devout priest as well as an enthusiastic investigator."

"Corruption has always been a constant companion of humankind. After all, Catholic culture itself teaches us: without …"

"The truth is that when Christian Democrats die, everyone applauds them and some even wanted to canonise them, yet whe…"