Each week, we’ll be covering how faith shapes our politics, culture and society — and how it’s appearing in new forms.

Defining religion isn’t as simple as it seems. Is it belief in God, a system of rituals, or a cultural tradition? Scholars have debated this for centuries, offering competing definitions from ...

A remedy to this partisan sorting where we hate each other and don’t understand each other is by getting involved with local politics." ...

Each year, the Religion News Association surveys its members to come up with the top domestic and international stories about religion. From the U.S. presidential election to the war in Gaza, religion ...

Negative views of religion’s influence on society are fairly common among religious “nones,” which include atheists and agnostics, in the 22 countries we analyzed.

Vice President-elect JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance kicked off Inauguration Day festivities Monday morning with a service ...

Atheism is far from new, but the various ways that people say “no thank you” to belief in gods, deities, or particular religions are so diverse that they’ve had a huge impact on world belief systems.

Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. We’ve had so many post-mortems on the election that a wave of post-mortems on the post-mortems is now coming in. But if we zoom out—way out—and look ...

"There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!" an irritated scientist told me during a workshop on climate change and religion in 2024. Contrary to the tone of his ...

Research Officer, Religion and Global Society, London School of Economics and Political Science “There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated scientist ...