Across cultures, death rituals give mourners a chance to grieve. But they also offer one last opportunity to help the deceased…
Halloween’s influence is transforming popular festivities around Día de los Muertos and its ceremonial customs in rural…
Many Christian and Muslim families in Gaza today were displaced following the creation of new Arab and Jewish states. Today,…
A human rights scholar explains how social media users can take charge of what content comes into their feed and reduce…
Does Louisiana’s requirement for public schools to post ‘In God We Trust’ in all classrooms violate the doctrine of…
Shortly after World War II, European Jews immigrated to American cities like Boston and were often met with violent antisemitism.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion…
Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior…
Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality is attempting to move the church toward a more dialogue-based model of authority, a…
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for…
On Oct. 11, 2023, a new memorial was unveiled at the site of the 1911 fire. A cadre of young Jewish women helped push for…
Politicians have used their assumptions about Gazans to support their policies. But the people in Gaza experience these…
Vaccine policies fall on a spectrum, from mandates to recommendations. Deciding what to use and when is not so much a science…
Much of the tourism industry that’s sprung up around Amish areas says more about Americans’ own identity than Amish…
Ruth’s headline-grabbing home runs helped his sport recover from scandal, while his own story helped combat anti-Catholic…
In minority faith groups that already face hate, women who have experienced harassment sometimes fear bringing negative…
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right…
Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.
A scholar who studies alternative expressions of spirituality visited secular, atheist and psychedelic churches and interacted…
The Al-Aqsa mosque, a flashpoint in Hama’ recent assault against Israel, hosts daily prayers and Friday gatherings. It…