Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin highlights America’s complicated religious history. The nation’s highest court correctly held that Maine violated the US Constitution’s First ...

Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of ...

(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 premier museum on Maryland’s history has hired a curator to focus on one of the state’s proudest claims to fame: its profile as a haven for faith traditions. The Maryland Center for History and ...

Fictional religions often feel hollow because they lack the slow accumulation of history, trauma, ritual, and contradiction ...

Most of us have heard the phrase, “I love Jesus but I hate religion.” It sounds like a bumper sticker, but it actually taps into a massive shift happening right now. According to a 2024 Pew Research ...

Mathew Schmalz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Would you believe that the idea of Tufts students as Ivy rejects has its roots in the University's founding? A group of Universalists - very liberal Christians - founded Tufts College in 1852 after ...

(RNS) — 'Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat,' by Christina Ward, is both history book and cookbook, with over 75 recipes. (RNS) — As a kid growing up in ...

When ninth-grade schoolchildren in Kyrgyzstan began classes this year, they discovered a new subject in the curriculum: the History of the Development of Religions. President Sadyr Japarov laid out ...