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Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
Arab American Heritage Month is becoming more well-known, but the simple words ‘Arab American’ encompass a wide array of religious and ethnic groups.
Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
Like Halloween and Christmas, today’s Easter traditions are a blend of Christian and non-Christian influences.
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still resisting the culture of violence.
Donkeys and palm leaves are both associated with Christianity’s Palm Sunday – but their symbolism couldn’t be more different.
The Passover Seder has tradition and remembrance at its core, but has also evolved throughout the centuries in Jewish communities around the world.
Religious pluralism and social justice were at the core of King’s campaigns – a vision shaped by influences as diverse as Gandhi, the Black church, Greek classics and Buddhism.
Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
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.
Mindfulness is everywhere in pop culture today, but that doesn’t mean people agree on what it means.
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.
Federal law protects students’ rights to request some religious accommodations, including during the month of Ramadan.
Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe.
Several members were killed March 9, 2023, in Germany. Many people hold stereotypes about Jehovah’s Witnesses but are unfamiliar with their beliefs.
‘I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much good.
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?
Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in not just Hinduism but other South Asian faith groups as well.
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Affliated Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eastern Illinois University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
