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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.
Federal law protects students’ rights to request some religious accommodations, including during the month of Ramadan.
Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.
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?
From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in not just Hinduism but other South Asian faith groups as well.
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts.
Two conservation scholars break down what de-extinction looks like – and the debate over whether it could do any good.
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.
Waco has been used as a rallying cry for decades, two scholars of domestic extremism explain.
Despite the diverse images used for God in Scripture and Christian tradition, male language and images predominate in contemporary Christian worship.
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.
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.
The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
Trauma can affect how people remember and describe experiences. Many survivors express their pain through objects and physical symptoms, an anthropologist explains.
Native Americans are struggling to find sage for their spiritual practices as the plant is being overharvested for sale to the wider public.
A roundup of The Conversation’s articles about this holy Christian season and its history.
A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.
Employers navigating employees’ requests for religious accommodations face some confusing guidance. A new Supreme Court case could clarify – and shift the norm.
A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.