Belief

While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.

The NYT identifies the 'religious fervor in the American right' — around four decades late.

Denmark Vesey expressed the Bible’s anti-slavery messages.

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

The Nation of Islam is controversial. Its practical purposes for incarcerated people transcend both politics and religion.

Stuart compares the shared values of Christian nationalists and the Nation of Islam in the 1960's and today.

Russia has become an ally in a global movement.

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.

After the passing of William James, mediums across the US began receiving messages from the late Harvard professor.

Why three religious groups traded monogamy for celibacy, polygamy, and complex marriage.

The musical traditions found in contemporary Black U.S. and Caribbean Christian worship originated hundreds of years ago, continents away.

On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

Amid all the suffering and death, friends and supporters arose in unexpected—often religious—places.

Politics have diluted King's dream.

A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.

A conversation with the biographer of radical Jewish 'revenge theologian' Meir Kahane.

Muscular Christianity — with scriptural interpretations that can favor “stand your ground” over “turn the other cheek” — has a long tradition in the U.S.

In the 17th century, Dutch proselytisers set out for Asia, Africa and the Americas. The legacy of their travels endures.

The show never took a singular position on social issues. The point was to wrestle with the story itself in hopes of sparking self-awareness and contemplation.

“They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.”

A history of the People’s Temple before the tragic murder-suicides.

What a video of an Jan. 6 insurrectionist illustrates about race, religion, and nationalism in the MAGA movement.

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.

The time when Harvard made an atheist their head chaplain.

In 1850s Vermont, Achsa Sprague swore that the spirits who helped her walk again also possessed her with a crucial mission: freeing every soul in America.

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.

The debate regarding which Bible kids should read in school was about whether Catholic immigrants should have the full rights of American citizenship.

The very American racism of the notorious late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism.