Topics such as sexual assault have been difficult for survivors and historians to write about, even decades after the war.
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Africa represents the fastest-growing part of the Catholic Church. The pope’s 2026 journey will stop in Cameroon, Equatorial…
In the early days of the United States, Philly was a hotbed of conspiracy theories as fears grew that secret societies sought…
Hegseth is a member of the CREC, whose beliefs are rooted in a 20th-century movement called Christian Reconstructionism.…
Denying Jewish men’s masculinity, or blaming them for weakening ‘traditional’ masculinity, has long been part of antisemitism.
Research shows that a hidden American worldview can shape AI advice in ways that are culturally misleading.
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.
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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.