Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Joseph Smith encouraged early Latter-day Saints to pool their resources. Two centuries later, one of the results is an investment…
Mindfulness is everywhere in pop culture today, but that doesn’t mean people agree on what it means.
Communal meals to break fast can mean lots of single-use plastics. A switch to environmentally friendly principles is in…
Federal law protects students’ rights to request some religious accommodations, including during the month of Ramadan
Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with…
Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe.
Several members were killed March 9, 2023, in Germany. Many people hold stereotypes about Jehovah’s Witnesses but are…
‘I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much…
The use of AI and robotic technology in worship is raising profound questions about its long-term consequences. Will it…
From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in not just Hinduism but other South Asian faith groups…
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be…
Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts.
Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.
A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the…
Waco has been used as a rallying cry for decades, two scholars of domestic extremism explain.
With the Church of England considering gender-neutral language to refer to God, a feminist theologian explains how Christianity…
A media scholar who studied Carter and interviewed him explains how he attempted to translate Jesus’ teachings into action…