Just before Thanksgiving, Pennsylvania gave some employees another reason to give thanks. On November 25, 2025, Pennsylvania Governor Josh ...

Ministers have been accused of a “stitch-up” over the Islamophobia definition. It is feared the definition – which treats ...

Being religious can mean very different things depending on where and when you look. In many ancient cultures, religion wasn’t about belief—it was about ritual, duty, and community identity. Modern ...

At the end of the 2024 AAR/SBL meeting, Leela Prasad, a Brown University religious studies professor and the newly named American Academy of Religion president, announced the theme for 2025’s Boston ...

Religious literacy has become a ‘hot topic’ in the last two decades. Religious studies scholars, educationalists, sociologists, political science scholars, and theologians (among others) have all ...

Dr. Appiah is a professor of philosophy and law at New York University and the author of the forthcoming book “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science,” from which this essay is adapted.

Defining religion isn’t as simple as it seems. Is it belief in God, a system of rituals, or a cultural tradition? Scholars have debated this for centuries, offering competing definitions from ...

Intertwined with political issues like the Israel-Hamas war, gender identity and vaccine mandates, employees nationwide are filing a variety of lawsuits that challenge workplace policies and bring ...

Last month, the Supreme Court wrapped up its October 2024 Term, which included three church-state decisions. Each touched on long-running issues—public funding for religious schools, the definition of ...