In other words, it was not merely prejudice; it was a worldview that explained the entire world to its believers by blaming all of its faults on this scapegoat. Unlike earlier anti-Jewish hatred, this ...

Sport has gradually displaced traditional religion on a functional level. Today, many spend their Sundays with sport rather ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the ...

The long rise of the Nones, Americans with no religious affiliation, has seemingly reached its limit, and a fascination with the numinous shadows our culture once again. Within the intelligentsia ...

The virtue of hope, pegged to the theme of this Jubilee year, is commonly used to mean a wish : its ... religious life and priesthood. For Pope Benedict XVI, hope is a performative reality and not ...

It’s simply not the ... about what religion is and does. We argue that countries have distinct religious imaginaries, which play a critical role in shaping the population’s relationship ...

He said at the Washington event that his relationship with religion had “changed” after a pair of failed assassination ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

As a result, it struggles to explain why Canada went from being a more religious country than the United States in terms of behaviour and belonging prior to 1960, to being, by 2023, much more secular.

In the 1960s, clerics led powerful movements to protest human rights violations and war. It was their religious devotion that ...