Cesar Chavez salutes the crowd on the steps of the California State Capitol.
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A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Thousands of church members sing during the 2016 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Joseph Smith encouraged early Latter-day Saints to pool their resources. Two centuries later, one of the results is an investment portfolio estimated at $100 billion.
Practicing mindfulness doesn’t have to mean being removed from the world.
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Mindfulness is everywhere in pop culture today, but that doesn’t mean people agree on what it means.
Plastic, yes. But at least the bottles are being reused.
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Communal meals to break fast can mean lots of single-use plastics. A switch to environmentally friendly principles is in line with Islamic principles through the ages.
Muslim students may request special accommodations during the Islamic month of fasting.
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Federal law protects students’ rights to request some religious accommodations, including during the month of Ramadan.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
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Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.
The Nazis made the yellow badge infamous around the world, but its roots are much older.
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Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe.
The entrance at the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Germany.
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Several members were killed March 9, 2023, in Germany. Many people hold stereotypes about Jehovah’s Witnesses but are unfamiliar with their beliefs.
Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in Vatican City on Feb. 15, 2023.
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‘I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much good.
A robotic arm (below on right) is used to worship by maneuvering a candle in front of the Hindu god Ganesha.
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The use of AI and robotic technology in worship is raising profound questions about its long-term consequences. Will it lead to the betterment of society or replace practitioners?
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
Speakers discussing the proposed ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws at Seattle City Hall, on Feb. 21, 2023.
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Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in not just Hinduism but other South Asian faith groups as well.
Palestinians look out from a damaged building next to scorched cars in the town of Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on Feb. 27, 2023.
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A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
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Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts.
An impossible sight – but maybe not for long.
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Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.
Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard household.
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A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Fire engulfs the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993.
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Waco has been used as a rallying cry for decades, two scholars of domestic extremism explain.
A service in the village church of St. Paul de Leon in Devon, England.
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Despite the diverse images used for God in Scripture and Christian tradition, male language and images predominate in contemporary Christian worship.
Former President Jimmy Carter has decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care.
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A media scholar who studied Carter and interviewed him explains how he attempted to translate Jesus’ teachings into action through his life of public service.
An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France.
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Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening.
A pride flag flies in front of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City during a 2015 protest against church policy toward same-sex couples.
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The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
Ukrainian designer Margarita Chala stands next to shoes symbolizing war crimes committed against Ukrainian civilians at the Old Town Square in Prague in 2023.
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Trauma can affect how people remember and describe experiences. Many survivors express their pain through objects and physical symptoms, an anthropologist explains.
White sage is being commonly used for purification rituals.
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Native Americans are struggling to find sage for their spiritual practices as the plant is being overharvested for sale to the wider public.
A Catholic Ash Wednesday service at St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India, in 2022.
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A roundup of The Conversation’s articles about this holy Christian season and its history.
Purchasing property as a primary home is considered more ethical than acquiring property for investment.
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A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.