Tag: Religion

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

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

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as being threats to child welfare. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are the latest in a long history dating back to medieval attacks on Jews.

The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it, and what can it teach us about how Christianity shaped the modern self?

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

Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.