Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?

An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

Anger’s history—along with the very fact that it has one—can shed light on the hypertrophied emotional climate of today.

The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.