Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

I spoke with Andrea on the heels of her trip to India to attend the International Buddhist Conclave...

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative...

Bhikkhu Anālayo skillfully analyzes the early Buddhist doctrine of rebirth before discussing the debate around rebirth throughout Buddhist history...

Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...

Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma...

If you’re a Latter Day Saint, you’ve probably heard of W. W. Phelps, and no doubt, you’ve probably sung some of his hymns...

Why did creative writers in early modern England write so forcefully about the relationship between aesthetics and morality?

Evans sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful...

Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly...

Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...

Ira shows that psychotherapists approaches to Buddhist traditions are moulded by how they relate to what is and is not religion...

Ira shows that psychotherapists approaches to Buddhist traditions are moulded by how they relate to what is and is not religion...

Larios probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the world’s oldest living tradition: the unbroken chain of transmission of Vedic texts composed over 3,000 years ago, originating circa 1750-1200 BCE...

Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Nathan McGovern draws on ancient texts to problematize the distinction between Brahman and non-Brahman in this era, shedding light on the presence of various Buddhist, Jain and Vedic groups who equally identified as Brahmans.

Open conflict between religion and science may not be inevitable, but a germ of discord resides in some of the fundamental commitments of both...

Claire Pamment’s book is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance...

Hardin explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness...

Religion has returned to China. Really, it never left...

An interview with Eddie Glaude, Jr.

The Westminster Assembly (1643-53) was one of the most important ecclesiastical councils in the history of Reformed Protestantism, but until very recently it had received little in the way of scholarly attention...

The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...

In 2008 Meido Roshi received inka shomei ("mind seal"), designating him an 86th-generation Zen dharma heir and a 48th-generation holder of the lineage descended from Rinzai Gigen...