Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bible on a school desk in a classroom. A Bible on a school desk in a classroom. A new Florida law encouraging schools to add ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

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.

J. Gordon Melton of the Institute for the Study of American Religion sits in the University of California Santa Barbara library in Santa Barbara. Melton, author of the “Encyclopedia of American ...

Religion is serious. Religion is deadly. Religion is beautiful. Religion is... entertaining? While there is no agreed-upon definition of religion, most people think they know what it is, where it is ...

All Jehovah’s Witnesses lay claim to draft exemption on the ground that they are ministers. Last week the U.S. Supreme court backed up one of them in a 6-to-3 decision. What applied to George Lewis ...

The DeSantis administration, in encouraging introduction of religious chaplains into Florida’s public schools, has published a definition of “religion” that appears to exclude world faiths with ...