Belief

Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau.

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.

If religious freedom trumps equality under the law, it provides a “cover” that actually encourages discrimination.

A Q&A with the author of "Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America."

It seemed to me that the conditions of cancer and captivity shared physical, emotional, and spiritual correspondences.

Looking to the French Revolution and the writings of Tocqueville for insight into Trump’s America.

The case hinges on whether its display is to honor local history or Christianity.

How social media is – and isn't – changing American religion.

That the 500th anniversary of Luther’s act has been noted without éclat may be something to celebrate.

Why did future members of the modernist literary movement darken their skin, speak fake Swahili, and board a British battleship?

Niebuhr is a theological hero to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.

Peyote use has been defended with religious liberty arguments. So has Bible reading in public schools.

It's not that they're attacking him. It's what they're attacking him for.

How a minister's accidental bestseller launched the country's first outdoor craze.

Judith Weisenfeld’s book, New World A-Coming, reinterprets the various religious movements among African Americans in the early twentieth century.

Trump's unbridled rhetorical rampage has stripped the presidency of its moral ambition and authority. 

One historian, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian, says no.

America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

A descendant of the Oneida Community reflects on the famous 19th century experiment in managing sexual freedom.

The Jesus People, born on Haight Ashbury, had a profound influence on the Religious Right.

What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?

What can their fascination with the supernatural teach us about life in our own post-truth times?

"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.

The story of a spiritual visionary who in 1884, set out to create a colony of orphans in the New Mexico desert.

Leigh Eric Schmidt profiles the nineteenth century's notable "village atheists."

In a new book, a historian explores the American fascination with conversion, and its costs. 

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.