Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...

Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility...

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....

Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...

Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.

Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...

Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...

Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....

The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...

What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?

Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..

Newfield presents a comprehensive portrait of the prolonged state of being “in-between” that characterizes transition out of a totalizing worldview...

This ethnographic journey across three Indian locales examines the agency of various materials – from ornaments, to female guising, to cement images....

Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”

Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...

Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...

Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...

Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...

In this interview, we have a candid conversation with Dr. Christopher Key Chapple of Loyola Marymount University...

Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....

Miura examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi)...

The exodus—the story of God leading his chosen people out of slavery in Egypt—stands as a pivotal event in the Old Testament...

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...