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A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.
Faith can inform opinions about abortion on both sides of the political debate, but the Bible itself says nothing directly about the topic, a biblical scholar explains.
The field of ‘monster studies’ looks at how texts reflect ideas about what’s evil, weird or scary.
The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is viewed differently around the world, an anthropologist writes.
People are increasingly identifying less with religious tradition and are looking for meaning and identity in the things they love most.
Many religions have been used to prop up nationalism, and Catholicism is no exception, as a Jesuit priest and scholar explains.
Crystals are part of a larger tradition of metaphysical religions that have a long history in the U.S.
Purity culture is based in sexual abstinence until marriage.
Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.
Christian support for legislation prohibiting abortion is a cultural and political stance. It has nothing to do with the Bible.
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
In a country where Christians are a minority, understanding how religious groups use traditional arts and music to convey their faith and identity is important to preserve their cultural legacy.
The Catholic Church considers St. Joseph a role model of fatherhood and faith. In many countries, Father’s Day is celebrated on his feast day.
Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one.
Just as Christians in the 1800s were persecuted for embracing foreign teachings, today the regime in power vilifies civil society and opposition political parties as foreign agents.
And what Adventists can teach us about living greener, longer lives.
Conservative Christians have cheered restrictions on some birth control. But many decades ago, Christian leaders’ support helped contraceptives become acceptable in the first place.
Two scholars of fundamentalism and creationism explain what they found when they visited the Ark Encounter, an evangelical theme park in Kentucky,
Temples are often open to the public for a period after construction or renovation, but only church members may enter once religious ceremonies begin.
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Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
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Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Reader in Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
