By Chris Smith "“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away."

2013 marks not just 40 years of Roe v. Wade but 40 years of The Exorcist, the classic horror...

Nathan Schradle Religious leaders are learning that they will be held accountable, to such an extent that they attempt...

Nathan Schradle on the miserly, the groping, the fanatical, the pious and the vacuum.

By Natasja Sheriff The latest news on religious freedom, at home and abroad, provides the focus of this week's...

In the second of two posts, Irina Papkova, explores Bashar al-Assads assertion that Syria is the "last stronghold of...

Nathan Schradle They might be downers but they're good downers.

By Maurice Chammah "Port Said, once the pariah, is now the vanguard. As the protests turn to street battles,...

Nathan Schradle Well, we are now TEN YEARS OLD.

Protests in Ethiopia could have profound ramifications for Muslim-state relations in Ethiopia and beyond, writes Alex Thurston in the...

By Ann Neumann There are two places in the U.S. where you can be fed against your will: a...

Secularism has been a central part of dominant Syrian ideology since at least the 1960s, writes Irina Papkova, but...

In the aftermath of a 1937 massacre, Rafael Trujillo’s violent regime launched a campaign to demonize Haitians, using voudou...

In the first of two posts on the deterioration of religious freedom for Ethiopia's Muslims, Alex Thurston looks at...

Orientalism, feminism, sexism, hedonism and beauty.

Quoting Charles Taylor quoting Schiller; from his essay "Disenchantment--Reenchantment" in The Joy of Secuarlism, now out in paperback.

Meera Subramanian The people on the streets of Delhi, are saying: We won’t disappear.

A provisional liturgy makes the U.S. Episcopal Church the first to practice same-sex marriage ceremonies, "in true unity."

"Panopticism is a form of knowledge and a form of power."

Reading broadly.

Conflict in western Burma's Arakan state has displaced thousands of Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Arakanese. From the Burmese...

By Natasja Sheriff On breaking the deafening silence surrounding two international human rights and climate change events.

From Patton Burchett's "Religions of India" class, 28 poems after Kabir, the celebrated 15-16th century devotional poet and social...