This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. Earlier this year, I spoke with a college class about the ...

This video examines why defining religion has proven so difficult for scholars. Early definitions focused on belief in gods, but those quickly broke down under scrutiny. Modern scholars instead treat ...

Even though people have long experienced religious trauma, Nashville therapist Laura Anderson quickly realized they haven’t always received the most responsive mental health care. Soon after she ...

(RNS) — An eventful year by any standard, 2021 had more than its share of religion headlines. Even a casual reader might have had a hard time finding a major news story that didn’t have a religion ...

When is yoga religious, and when is it… not religious enough? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll find out why these frameworks we call “religions” are so hard to define, and why our ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Paul Cox was having nightmares. He told a fellow member of Alcoholics Anonymous about the dreams, which centered on the night Cox stabbed a couple to death in a drunken stupor in ...

I understand why John McCandlish Phillips protested what must seem to him as the vilification of evangelical Christians by certain columnists ["When Columnists Cry 'Jihad,' " op-ed, May 4].

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

The DeSantis administration, in encouraging introduction of religious chaplains into Florida’s public schools, has published a definition of “religion” that appears to exclude world faiths with ...

ChatGPT is all the rage. It even drives some people into a rage. It does some remarkable things, it does some outrageous things, it does some absurd things. Most things it does badly, such as tell you ...