Defining religion isn’t as simple as it seems. Is it belief in God, a system of rituals, or a cultural tradition? Scholars have debated this for centuries, offering competing definitions from ...

“Nones” are adults who describe themselves religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” This report uses the terms “nones” and “religiously unaffiliated” interchangeably. Negative ...

“Nones” are adults who describe themselves religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” This report uses the terms “nones” and “religiously unaffiliated” interchangeably. Many “nones” ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Religion seems to be a complicated and many-sided issue. On one hand, religion reportedly motivates charity, compassion, ethics, goodwill, kindness, morality, righteousness, selflessness, unity, etc.

Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was everywhere, ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

“Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise…” That phrase repeatedly recalled as ...

Research Officer, Religion and Global Society, London School of Economics and Political Science “There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated scientist ...