What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?

Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?

Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin...

To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?

Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...

Michael R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he holds a Sizeler Professorship...

Jacob, reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms.

Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...

What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths?

Thomas A. Wayment, professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, has done something remarkable — he has retranslated the New Testament...

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...

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...

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...

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...