The United Nations’ recent World Interfaith Harmony Week provided an ideal opportunity for William & Mary’s I-Faith organization to get back to its roots by hosting a one-day conference entitled “The ...

A new approach to the study of religion is using cognitive science to try reach a new understanding of religious behavior and thought. Cognitive science of religion is a 20-year-old field that uses ...

Contents of religious texts, though mostly very old now, still shape communities and behaviors the world over. Some are of the view that as mostly men were in the forefront during the formative years ...

(RNS) — In America’s religious landscape, the groups attracting the most public attention are those staking out the poles in our political divides: the shrinking, aging but still influential group of ...

The time is ripe to expand our understanding of diversity, to include the rich tapestry of religious and spiritual beliefs that shape the lives and values of our teams. A recent study by Eldessouky ...

Religion has played an outsized role in U.S. history and politics, but it's one that has often gone unrecognized in U.S. museums. "As a focused subject area, it's been neglected," says Peter Manseau, ...

After the shootings at Bondi on the first day of Chanukah, some have claimed the actions of the gunman had “nothing to do ...

Religious literacy isn’t about memorizing doctrines—it’s about understanding how religion shapes societies and people in real, complex ways. This video outlines three foundational insights: religions ...

Much is said about Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) publics opposing gender equality, often referring to patriarchal Islam. However, nuanced large-scale studies addressing which specific ...

The field of American life is as bare of the Church as a billiard table of a centerpiece. . . . So wrote scornful Expatriate Henry James in The American Scene (1907). To him, as to most Englishmen, ...