The United Nations’ recent World Interfaith Harmony Week provided an ideal opportunity for William & Mary’s I-Faith organization to get back to its roots by hosting a one-day conference entitled “The ...

Religious literacy begins with three foundational insights: religions are internally diverse, historically dynamic, and deeply embedded in culture. No single faith tradition speaks with one unified ...

Religion has long played a pivotal role in shaping human affairs, influencing social structures, cultural practices, and historical events. It provides not only a framework for individual beliefs but ...

While following her dream to become a criminal prosecutor, Reagan Brown has learned how to craft eloquent arguments, how to stand up for her beliefs, and how to keep cool in intense situations. As a ...

Contents of religious texts, though mostly very old now, still shape communities and behaviors the world over. Some are of the view that as mostly men were in the forefront during the formative years ...

Many people assume that studying religion means promoting or defending a particular faith, but academic religious studies is ...

A new approach to the study of religion is using cognitive science to try reach a new understanding of religious behavior and thought. Cognitive science of religion is a 20-year-old field that uses ...

(RNS) — In America’s religious landscape, the groups attracting the most public attention are those staking out the poles in our political divides: the shrinking, aging but still influential group of ...

(The Conversation) — Human simulation in action is messier than modeling bridges, but it can be a useful way for researchers to understand just why people behave the way they do. (The Conversation) — ...

While this article salutes attempts to use Donald Davidson's principles of radical interpretation in the study of religion in order to avoid the pitfalls of correspondence theory of truth, on the one ...