The oldest world religions managed to spread with the early development of civilization around river basins and coastlines, such as Hinduism's spread throughout the Indus Valley, the location of ...

Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world ...

Blue Ridge Community College Religion and Philosophy Instructor Eric Williamson has published his own textbook, ...

Threaded through the travelogues is a warm and enlightening picture of the world’s second largest religion and its believers ... is to walk seven times around the Kaaba, the great black cube ...

A collection of classroom resources for primary and secondary schools to support teaching around World Religion Day. When is World Religion Day? World Religion Day takes place each January ...

The new-atheist idea that the weakening of organized religion would ... you can turn to the next book in my trio, Spencer Klavan’s “Light of the Mind, Light of the World,” which is an ...

No way, despite all the religions in the world invoking compassion ... Of course, Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology and prolific author, in his 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why ...

You may have heard the insane tale of a $660 million memecoin called Goatseus Maximus, which was shilled to the world by a shitposting ... a bizarre memetic “religion” around the gross ...

Here, the movie writers touch on the issue of why we believe the things we do. Authoritarianism (testimony) is one path, ...

In census data released Thursday in Scotland, there were a number of interesting findings about LGBTQ+ and gender identity, ...

Right around this time of year it’s the High Holidays of baseball. That is a very expansive view of religion. You know, the psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote in his 2012 book, “The Righteous ...

New Materialism and the religion-science interface. She’s published dozens of book chapters and journal articles, as well as two other books: God's Body: Panentheism across the World's Religious ...