This course will introduce students to the historical and contemporary study of religions in the United States through a framework of religious literacy and the investigation of primary source texts, ...

In brief, regardless of whether or not the specific term, ‘god’, is used, all religions revolve around the search for some ultimate first principle of existence—whether or not this first principle is ...

The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on May 22, blocking religious charter schools. But the court could still reshape religious liberty in the United States with decisions in two other cases. One ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

As of 2020, people who identify with a religion make up about 76% of the world’s population, according to a new Pew Research Center study on global religious change. This is down by about 1 percentage ...