A new dictionary of 20,000 “foreign” (non-Russian) words and phrases issued by the Soviet State Publishing House defines “Religion” as: “A fantastic faith in gods, angels and spirits … a faith without ...

(RNS) — Jonathan Z. Smith, a historian and theorist of religion widely admired for his analytic rigor in comparing religions, has died. He was 79. Smith, who died Saturday (Dec. 30), was the author of ...

A story in today’s EatPrayLive section refers to the Roman Curia, or papal bureaucracy, and the work that Pope Francis is doing to change what is often thought to be a source of problems for the ...

Jonathan Z. Smith, a historian and theorist of religion widely admired for his analytic rigor in comparing religions, died December 30 of lung cancer. He was 79. Smith authored numerous books and ...

(RNS) It's often cited as one of the longest words in the English language. It refers to a concept in church-state relations. (RNS) “Antidisestablishmentarianism” is often cited as one of the longest ...