The concept of religion has played a significant role in shaping the development of many societies. In some nations, religion continues a central part of everyday life, whilst in others very much less ...

Researchers have created a new road map of the Roman world that could help historians study how religion, migration, trade, and even pandemics spread across the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.

Pew Research Center has been tracking restrictions on religion around the world since 2007. We divide these restrictions into two categories: actions by governments and actions by private individuals ...

Between 2010 and 2020, the world’s population expanded-and so did nearly every major religious group-according to an analysis of over 2,700 censuses and surveys, a Pew Research Center report said.

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

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 ...

This article examines the ways in which the status of Mormonism within academic comparative religion discourses is quite different from that which has evolved among Latter-day Saint leaders and within ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The ...

It is easy to dismiss any suggestion of a new world religion. After all, look at the division and conflict, the extent of human suffering, caused by opposition among the religions we have already. But ...