A new Smithsonian book and exhibition explores the ongoing conflicts and reconciliations between faith and technology in American life Peter Manseau - Curator, Religion, National Museum of American ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

There have been numerous calls recently for a better understanding of religion. Of course, many of those were heard after September 11, 2001, when it became clear how little most Americans know of ...

(The Conversation) — May 2023 marks 98 years since the birth of civil rights leader Malcolm X, formerly Malcolm Little. Malcolm X was a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, or NOI, and helped to lead ...

How to navigate the role and impact of religion in a diverse country where trust in institutions is slowly eroding? That's ...

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2020), pp. 75-88 (14 pages) April DeConick's The Gnostic New Age demonstrates that scholarship of Gnosticism is still entrenched in an ...

Lately, Islamicists have called to discard "religion" as a conceptual tool and/or to use the "Qurʾānic term" dīn instead, arguing that "religion" entails Eurocentric bias. Analyzing how Fazl-ur-Rahman ...

Ahead of the 2022 Annual Meetings hosted by the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature from November 19 to 22 in Denver, Colo., university and academic presses say that ...