(THE CONVERSATION) Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is ...

In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam. Many Muslims believe it’s their religious duty to pray five times a day in the direction of the Kaaba ...

Osama bin Laden, the world’s most notorious terrorist, has handed Muslims everywhere their worst public-relations nightmare: September 11 as a picture, an embodiment, of Islam. Muslims now have to ...

I n an otherwise impeccable piece, Janet Albrechtsen wrote recently: ‘It is worth repeating here – for the umpteenth ...

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Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...