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Both panoramic and detailed, this infographic manages to show both the size and distribution of world religions.
The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.
When you’re a Hasidic woman in Borough Park, Brooklyn, starting an ambulance corps is a radical act. Documentary filmmaker Paula Eiselt on the push-pull of identity and cultural change in her film 93Queen.
Thousands of churches are left behind every year in America.
How mutual admiration was torn asunder by the sex drive: Freud, Jung and the schism at the heart of psychoanalysis.
The Pew Research Center has classified Americans into seven distinct religious types.
Jonathan Zittell Smith, the most influential scholar of religion of the past half-century, thought that religion "is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes."
Why do we work for five days and then take two days off? The answer might surprise you.
Have you heard the one about the U.S. Open and Yom Kippur? You're about to.
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It may seem like the world's going to hell in a hand basket, but the facts don't support it.
Rabbi Darren Levine explains how the psychology of happiness intersects with religious practice.
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People across eras, religions, and cultures have always been curious about a spiritual world that exists behind the curtain of death.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Bellah's essay “Civil Religion in America."
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Don't settle for comfortable and familiar thoughts, reach for what you don't know, says Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt.
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More Nations Are Banning Ritual Slaughter. Should Religious Tradition Be Honored Over Animal Rights?
Kosher butchers must have a steady hand. Their ritual slaughter, shechita, must result in one precise cut severing carotid arteries, jugular veins, vagus nerves, trachea, and esophagus; it has to […]
Faith is absurd — let’s embrace the comedy in that.
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The scientific quest for immortality is predicated on the belief that evidence may already exist in the form of Near-Death Experiences and reincarnation.
Is atheism on the rise, or is religion? At times we hear polls claiming both, but new research shows it's not that simple.
Politics is a noble, brave world, says Bernard-Henri Lévy – but that's not what we have here. rn
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Nowhere is anti-intellectualism more warmly incubated or does misinformation spread faster than in the online community, which is why Facebook – the third most-visited website in the world – has such a weighty responsibility.rn
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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. French philosopher and filmmaker "BHL" on evil, complacency, and the necessity of outsider thinking.
Jesus was a revered figure and prophet in the Quran. But what exactly do Muslims believe about him?
Albert Einstein shared his thoughts on the meaning of life and his own spiritual views.
New research provides more clues about the age of the world's most popular book.
The California State Assembly named August Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month.
Spiritual teacher Rob Bell believes that atheism is eroding certain religious teachings, and it's a good thing.
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Saudi clerics see Pokemon Go as anti-Islamic and full of forbidden symbols and ideas (like evolution!), so have renewed their 2001 fatwa on it.