Religious Studies
A scholar of gender and US religious history explains how women are trying to make religious communities more inclusive. Women’s ordination is only one piece of this ongoing work.
A new book by a religious studies professor explores the West’s origins in the ambiguities, intersections and nuances of the Mediterranean
Religious calendars and festivals can force people to encounter certain ideas in the year.
Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will, like the celebration itself, reflect on dark times while holding out for better to come.
Since Eisenhower, every sitting U.S. president has attended the breakfast at least once during his term.
A similar complexity appears in the history of early Christianity in how religion functioned, both in terms of rituals and in the use of the Latin term it derives from.
Pence’s religious and political biography mirrors key political and religious shifts over the past 40 years.
As religious services went online to protect congregants from the coronavirus, a paradox emerged: Worshipers were connected via the internet to a potentially wide community, but it felt like a more private affair.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions to many religious activitiesThe Catholic Church held what is being termed as the first online pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Earlier this spring, for the
Martin Luther King did not call for violence, but said “peace is not merely the absence of this tension, but the presence of justice"