A medical anthropologist explores claims about the health benefits of sound baths and how to choose the one to attend.
A scholar of Daoist rituals explains how the indigenous tradition of China understands the human body as being part of the…
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable…
Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before…
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is…
The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise…
For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender…
An expert on Ukrainian music and folklore explains how holiday traditions celebrate both centuries of culture and present-day…
In emphasizing the church’s love for all, including people in LGBTQ+ relationships, the pope has sidestepped thorny doctrinal…
Many countries wrestle with whether to include any kind of education about religion in public school lessons, and each one…
Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century…
Far-right American Christians once viewed Soviet culture as a menace to their values. Today, some authoritarian-leaning…
A scholar of American evangelicalism explains House Speaker Mike Johnson’s connections with Ark Encounter and the Creation…
Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth.
The famous apparition of the Virgin Mary has come to symbolize Mexico, but other groups – particularly migrants and Latinos…
The Christmas pudding, once known as the ‘Empire Pudding,’ reflects the lasting legacy of the British Empire.
Yule, celebrated by Wiccans and many other Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere on Dec. 21, the day of the winter solstice,…
Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped…
Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and…
The keffiyeh’s prominence soared in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, adopted…