The bishops could not be more culturally tone deaf.
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Religion – Analysis and Comment
How to challenge centuries of bigotry with a single image – and bump Trump off the front pages.
A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
The Oscar-nominated film is pure Hollywood hokum and a lost opportunity.
Americans are increasingly choosing not to identify with any religious tradition. But this group of irreligious people is a complex one – with different relationships to religion.
Charities in Australia can be political. They can advocate and lobby to further their charitable purposes. But they can’t be party-political.
The Testament of Mary is an interesting thought experiment but its narrative is improbable – historically, textually and theologically.
Europe is at a crossroads in how it integrates religious minorities. But there are lessons to be learned beyond liberal secularism.
Christians’ plight in Pakistan reflects the confused identity and ideologies of the country they live in.
What research says about why debates about faith get so heated online.
Complementarianism is the view – held by some Australian churches – that men and women have separate and divinely ordained roles: men are ‘spiritual leaders’ while women are ‘helpmeets’.
Jediism is not a religion? Tell that to its worshippers.
We are a secular nation, yet we acknowledge god in our Constitution. When it comes to religion, Australians tend to be pluralist and (relatively) tolerant.
At many Spanish missions in the US and Latin America, the rising sun illuminates the altar on the winter solstice or other symbolic days. To the faithful, these events meant that Christ was with them.
You might not like Christmas, but you probably don’t have a choice in the matter.
No other nation has conjoined business success and piety quite like America has. Is Donald Trump’s election a strange perversion of this tradition?
Reality television is never going to properly portray the true experiences of Muslims in Britain.
Before Christmas became child-centred, Father Christmas was the personification of a mid-winter feast of merrymaking for adults – and he brought no presents.
The deadly attack on Holey bakery in July 2016 and a recent spate of crimes against minorities show that Bangladesh’s commitment to secularism and pluralism are at stake.
Under Fidel Castro, Cuba declared itself as an atheist state. Castro’s relationship with religion, however, was far more complex. It left a deep impact on the religious identity of Cuba.
Due to recent restoration, the paintings are clearer than they have ever been over the last 600 years.
The Antill 7: On belief
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Four stories on belief: from the allure of cults and conspiracy theories, to the effect of trauma on faith, to the way dogma has influenced science – and if technology can actually shift our beliefs.
Religious organisations and community initiatives succeed where disoriented liberal politicians fail.
The Pilgrims were thankful for finally being able to vanquish Thomas Morton and Ferdinando Gorges, who spent years trying to undermine the legal basis for settlements in Massachusetts and beyond.
About one-quarter of the world’s countries, both in developing and developed economies, have anti-blasphemy laws. Their implementation is always controversial and highly politicised.