Religion is in trouble in the United States. The word, that is. Sociologists say that we are increasingly divided over religion’s place in public life but that when it comes to language ...

On the page I found a community of religious leaders discussing updates to A.I. programs like ChatGPT and Claude, even using image and video generators to recreate biblical scenes. The parallels ...

News photos show the dramatic, and there is little of the dramatic in Protestant practice. . . . “… I had no religious ministrations that I could confidently use to ease the emotional tension ...

Alan Levinovitz, a professor of religion at James Madison University, expresses this offense well in a Boston Globe column from last fall: “The word ‘religion’ in ‘X is a religion ...

In short, in Japan being religious is about behavior, what you do, more than it is about what you believe. Europeans originally used the word “religion” to describe not just the stories they ...

“The Word was made the ology and did not dwell ... of state-supported schools and universities that exclude dogmatic religious instruction . . .” This theology takes “seriously in practice ...

Some of the people at a midweek press conference calling for inclusion of “religion” in the House language said they would oppose it even if the word was added. Several termed it the “so ...

"It's a very old word, antedates the Catholic religion." It wasn't until the Middle Ages that the word conclave came into regular use to describe papal elections. In the late 13th century ...

But it does matter. What do people mean by the word “religion” in this oppositional phrase? Do gainsayers mean Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and if any of these, what flavor of ...

Many scholars (mostly Latter-day Saints) have for decades used “Mormon” to describe the entire religious tradition descended from founder Joseph Smith. They found Nelson’s reversal jarring ...