Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the weather, he steps out of the round yurt where he lives in Portland and lights incense at his southern ...

The Testament of Ann Lee” and Shaker traditions represent how movement has been a constantly evolving conduit to heaven.

The rich tapestry of Benin's cultural heritage, where Voodoo rituals bring the past to life in a mesmerizing dance of tradition and belief.

Yuval Harari, the author of the books Sapiens and Home Deus, warned that religion will be "taken over" while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "What happens to the religion ...

This Pew Research Center study explores a wide variety of spiritual and religious beliefs in six Latin American countries. Our survey included some questions we previously have asked in many countries ...

Over the years there have been gods for creation, death, love, war, and everything in between. Zeus, Hera, and their companions on Mount Olympus, Odin, Frigg, and the rest of the Æsir, Osiris, Isis, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how college impacts students. If the message giver is experienced as coercive, conversations get derailed, often ...

In the past month or so, federal courts have dealt a string of blows to conservatives’ push for the biblical Ten Commandments to be posted in public schools. Those four states are the latest of at ...

The Trump administration released a memo Monday that aims to protect religious expression among federal workers, outlining that employees can attempt to persuade co-workers about why their religious ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should ...

Religion seems to be a complicated and many-sided issue. On one hand, religion reportedly motivates charity, compassion, ethics, goodwill, kindness, morality, righteousness, selflessness, unity, etc.