History shows that governments’ attempts to strengthen religious institutions can backfire.
Beach vacations became popular only around the 19th-20th centuries – as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy.
Native American groups were aware of the region’s dramatic features. Since the national park’s creation, other faiths…
A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite…
Today, most of the Druze community is split between three countries: Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
The foundational belief of many of the QAnon followers is that Donald Trump is the heroic figure fighting the elite pedophile…
Whether AI can ‘think’ is a different question than whether it is ‘intelligent.’
New research from sociologists finds that local Catholic leaders are more likely than many other Christian clergy to speak…
Sociologists who measured supernatural beliefs in the US found that higher education and higher income are associated with…
Music brings spiritual realms into the world of human senses.
Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman”…
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but…
Swaggart’s calls for a return to conservative Christian norms live on in today’s world of tradwives, limited access…
Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students…
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
The Seven Mountain Mandate calls on Christians to gain influence, or ‘take dominion,’ over seven key areas of culture:…
Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture…
A scholar who worked with him for decades observes that what mattered to Moyers was not how close you were to power, but…
SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases…
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.