Pennsylvania will soon implement the CROWN Act, a law that prohibits discrimination based on hairstyles, textures, and types, as well as ...

Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s a glimpse into how the moral vocabulary has evolved ...

Being religious can mean very different things depending on where and when you look. In many ancient cultures, religion wasn’t about belief—it was about ritual, duty, and community identity. Modern ...

The outcry comes amid a review of the definition of “terrorism” by the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor, which has sought to update the criminal code for the first time since it was ...

At the end of the 2024 AAR/SBL meeting, Leela Prasad, a Brown University religious studies professor and the newly named American Academy of Religion president, announced the theme for 2025’s Boston ...

Religious literacy has become a ‘hot topic’ in the last two decades. Religious studies scholars, educationalists, sociologists, political science scholars, and theologians (among others) have all ...

Dr. Appiah is a professor of philosophy and law at New York University and the author of the forthcoming book “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science,” from which this essay is adapted.

Defining religion isn’t as simple as it seems. Is it belief in God, a system of rituals, or a cultural tradition? Scholars have debated this for centuries, offering competing definitions from ...

Intertwined with political issues like the Israel-Hamas war, gender identity and vaccine mandates, employees nationwide are filing a variety of lawsuits that challenge workplace policies and bring ...

The primary focus of every known religion is to lead carnal-minded people to become spiritually minded. It is to enable mortals to rise from their lowest ebb to a transformative stage, where they can ...