Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

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As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...

Xenophanes was the ancient Greek philosopher who boldly challenged traditional views of the gods and questioned divine ...

The original meaning behind the cards, first created 500 years ago, still remains elusive. But that didn't stop our reporter ...

At times, the Bible speaks about those “itching ears” as wanting heresy or the justification of sin. At other times, the problem is not the outright contradiction of the Bible but foolish ...

The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean ...

The Dunhuang map — distinct from the chart studied in the new research — is an early Chinese star map from the Tang Dynasty (CE 618–907). Image in public domain. For more than two thousand ...

In charts: Christians, Buddhists lead mass exit from ... However, people born into Islam or Hinduism rarely change religions or stop believing, finds a survey of 36 countries by Pew Research ...