(The Conversation) — Historians of American religious history explain why the Supreme Court’s recent religious liberty rulings are an example of America’s long struggle to define religious freedom.

When astronauts launch into space, they leave behind family, friends, and earthly possessions to complete critical, time-sensitive missions. But religious traditions are one of the few things that can ...

A new Smithsonian book and exhibition explores the ongoing conflicts and reconciliations between faith and technology in American life Peter Manseau | Curator, Religion, National Museum of American ...

This valuable addition to the literature on American religious liberalism tells how Catholics and Protestants in Los Angeles drew upon the Social Gospel tradition, the Black power movement, and ...

The Horn Shelter Man ranks as one of the oldest identifiable inhabitants in the lands that became America. He lived near a river now called Brazos and a place now called Waco more than 10,000 years ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of gender and US religious history explains how women are trying to make religious communities more inclusive. Women’s ordination is only one piece of this ongoing work.

When ninth-grade schoolchildren in Kyrgyzstan began classes this year, they discovered a new subject in the curriculum: the History of the Development of Religions. President Sadyr Japarov laid out ...