Laws put in place after the war aimed to return stolen belongings and offer war damages to victims. In reality, many Jewish…
In Shiite Islam, grief is not only personal but collective − expressed through rituals, pilgrimage and devotion to saints.
An anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian persecution…
For some Sephardic Jews today, holidays provide a rare opportunity to hear the now-endangered Judeo-Spanish language.
Growing up amid Sri Lanka’s civil war, I saw pluralism in action – but didn’t have a name for it. Today, I study the…
Swasthani holds a central place in Nepali culture. Its female characters uphold ideals of faithful wifehood – seen by…
Karen Ann Quinlan fell into a coma in 1975. The high-profile legal case over her parents’ wish to remove her ventilator…
Women’s preaching is controversial in some Christian denominations – but key to the biblical story of Jesus’ resurrection.
Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape…
More than 2,000 years ago, Laozi was all too familiar with the pitfalls of comparing yourself to other people’s accomplishments.
The Burmese meditation master Sayagyi U Ba Khin played a key role in shaping the meditation retreats that are popular today.
Long before Pittsburgh’s modern Irish celebrations existed, Irish immigrants helped shape the city in the 19th century…
While rationalizing deception is easy to do, developing the virtue of truthfulness is not.
The war on terror is among the Middle East conflicts that sparked a rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discriminatory incidents…
Young Latinos’ activism for immigrant rights ove the past few months has put a spotlight on their importance for the future…
Although the supreme leader assumes the majority of power, Iran’s regime consists of a network of governing bodies.
Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death,…
For some Americans, biblical prophecies about the end-times serve as a guide to conflicts in the Middle East today.
There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other…
Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may…