(The Conversation) — Historians of American religious history explain why the Supreme Court’s recent religious liberty rulings are an example of America’s long struggle to define religious freedom.

The academic study of religion examines belief, ritual, and religious institutions using tools drawn from multiple disciplines. Sociologists analyze how religion shapes communities and social ...

In 1949 the German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term ‘the axial age’ in his book, ‘The Origin and Goal of History.’ He defined the Axial Age as the pivotal period in human moral and spiritual ...

Preamble: This will be a long post... perhaps the longest in my history of long posts. What I am attempting here is a summary of the evolution of the concepts of religion and nation and how they ...

(RNS) — Albert J. Raboteau, an American religion historian who helped students and journalists enhance their understanding of African American religion, has died. The scholar died on Saturday (Sept.

The debate over how religion should be addressed in American public schools has intensified after the Ohio House passed the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,” a bill that formally states teachers ...

At any given day, Stanford’s gorgeous Memorial Church will be surrounded by tourists gaping at the students and happily snapping photos of Stanford’s most beautiful building. It’s oft featured on ...

Two-thirds of Black Americans are Protestant, like about four-in-ten Americans overall. The relationship between Black Americans and Protestantism is unusual due to the history of slavery and ...

THE enormous difficulties in the way and the costly outfit necessary to prosecute the study will prevent any considerable number of men, in any generation, from becoming Egyptologists. But there is ...