Religion has long played a pivotal role in shaping human affairs, influencing social structures, cultural practices, and historical events. It provides not only a framework for individual beliefs but ...

Many people assume that studying religion means promoting or defending a particular faith, but academic religious studies is ...

Anila Ali traces her interest in the interfaith movement to scripture. "God says in the Koran to Muslims," she says, "I have created you into tribes—different tribes—so that you may get to know each ...

(RNS) — In America’s religious landscape, the groups attracting the most public attention are those staking out the poles in our political divides: the shrinking, aging but still influential group of ...

Religion has played an outsized role in U.S. history and politics, but it's one that has often gone unrecognized in U.S. museums. "As a focused subject area, it's been neglected," says Peter Manseau, ...

The field of American life is as bare of the Church as a billiard table of a centerpiece. . . . So wrote scornful Expatriate Henry James in The American Scene (1907). To him, as to most Englishmen, ...

The vast majority of people globally identify with a religious group. Religion may significantly dictate, influence and/or inform their behavior and interactions with others, whether consciously or ...

You perhaps recall Napoleon’s question to Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, the French polymath, about why there was no mention of God in Laplace’s work on celestial mechanics. The French ...

Religious leaders at the first Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893 gathered as part of the World's Columbian Exposition. (Public Domain) Anila Ali traces her interest in the interfaith ...

The Parliament of the World's Religions is about to begin in Chicago. The first Parliament took place in 1893 and is considered the beginning of... Parliament of the World's Religions seeks ...