What happens to the memory of a charismatic teacher after his death? From Jesus to Osho, the growth of institutions, rival interpretations and later doctrines may be less surprising than it first appears.
How did medieval Europe, with small populations and limited technology, build thousands of churches and great cathedrals? The answer lies not only in wealth and belief, but in the Church’s inheritance of Roman structures of hierarchy, administration and social control — structures which helped shape European society long after the Middle Ages.