In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island, in Washington State, was flipping through The Christian Century, a progressive Protestant magazine, when ...

It’s a long word, a neologism, that seeks to capture a cultural transformation that is both historically specific and socially profound, a shift in mentalities and practices cutting to the core of ...

Nearly 40 years later, Winona Ryder is reprising her role as Lydia Deetz in Tim Burton’s "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." The star of the 1988 classic "Beetlejuice" recently admitted that she felt the film ...

Religious Studies is an international journal devoted to the problems of the philosophy of religion as they arise out of classical and contemporary discussions and from varied religious traditions.

Religion is an important part of many people’s lives all over the world. Religions serve many roles for people, and those roles are stronger for some people than others. Religions provide a set of ...

(RNS) — Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults. Those who had negative experiences are most likely to change faiths or give up on ...

Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults. Those who had negative experiences are most likely to change faiths or give up on religion.

Religious belief is one of the oldest and most complex aspects of human culture, shaping civilizations, laws, and personal identities. But for those who stand outside the realm of faith, certain ...

Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 (IMBD) In The Varieties of Religious Experience, his landmark book on the psychology of religion, William James delineated the traits that ...