For American Christians — especially those privileged to hold political, economic, and social power — these are...
Religion
Explore religious traditions across cultures and centuries, following how communities encountered the sacred and connected human life to powers beyond the visible world. These histories also examine how religion shaped political authority, cultural identity, art, and social change.
Early Christianity used the same artistic media as the surrounding Pagan culture. Introduction Early Christian art and...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to...
Christianity did not immediately win the hearts and minds of the people of Europe. Introduction Religion in...
Saint Gregory the Illuminator or Enlightener established Christianity as the official religion of ancient Armenia. By Mark...
The U.S. Constitution – that founded our nation – is a secular document. Is America a Christian...
The history of the Society of Jesus’ first missions is a story of great journeys. Abstract During...
Draconian, old-fashioned, and out-of-date, religious influence on American life continues to decline. By Mark Silk For taking...
U.S. adults generally can answer basic questions about the Bible and Christianity, but are less familiar with...
In fact, God is clearly pro-abortion. By Brian Bolton A prominent fundamentalist Christian minister and television celebrity...
The changing significance of sacred groves (utaki) from medieval to contemporary Okinawa. Abstract This article discusses the...
We’re still playing the same game, 2500 years later. There were apparently many anti-superstitious atheists in ancient...
The Supreme Court will decide in the next year whether sexual orientation and gender identity are covered...
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why...
Are we heading towards a “dark age” of religious fundamentalism? I’d like to respond to an article for...
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for...
Contemporary physics aligns smoothly with the doctrine of the eternal return suggested by Nietzsche. By Duane Altheide...
The religious right may have dominated US politics for decades, but progressive Christians are growing louder in...
Our core values may be encouraging us to reject organized religion. Religious participation is declining among Americans...
Most traditional religions in Africa have developed at the local level and are unique to a particular...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
The Upanishads are the philosophical account deemed to be the earliest source of Hindu religion. Introduction The...
How did the Ottomans shape the political and religious history of early modern Europe? Originally published by...
Although magic and witchcraft had existed since antiquity, early modern Europe underwent a growth in anxiety about...
The devil, once a part of the sacred truth, could now be seen as a fragment of...
The Donation of Constantine was most likely written, and almost certainly used, to coerce Pepin the Short...
The period of the Reformation (roughly 1500-1700) witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes in religion, thought, society,...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has...