Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

At the third anniversary celebration of the nation’s first purpose-built mosque — now known as the Mother Mosque of ...

A lot of what passes as religion in America today only helps perpetuate false narratives people create for themselves about ...

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...