News

Somalia as the new hot spot for jihadism?
October 8, 2024
Deprogramming against minority faiths being taken up by patriotic Buddhists?
October 8, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of Groups, Movements, People, and Events Impactng Contemporary Religion
October 8, 2024
Sociologists and evangelicals take up the secular narrative
September 9, 2024
New converts and new politics in American Catholicism
September 9, 2024
Spiritual directors taking the “none” factor into account in their ministries
September 9, 2024
Vacation Bible schools innovate in the face of decline
September 9, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
September 9, 2024
Securitization marks Central and Eastern European church-state landscape
September 9, 2024
Zoroastrianism transforming in urban Iran
September 9, 2024
Japanese media drives anti-cult sentiment
September 9, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
September 9, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of Groups, Movements, People, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
September 9, 2024
Elites gravitating to religion—and religious moving to elites
August 9, 2024
Closing congregations repurposing properties for affordable housing
August 9, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
August 9, 2024
Brazilian Spiritists in Germany: integrating or staying among themselves?
August 9, 2024
Congo attempts regulation as revival churches proliferate
August 9, 2024
Youth culture in Japan now based on weak self, vicarious religion
August 9, 2024
Tibetan Buddhist women’s ordination—so close yet so far
August 9, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
August 9, 2024
Revisions on sexual ethics intensifying United Methodist schism?
July 6, 2024
Evangelical church switching and competition driven by roles of evangelism, family ministry?
July 6, 2024
Nudism bares its spiritual side
July 6, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
July 6, 2024
Young French Catholics drawn to religious rituals and practices
July 6, 2024
Tibet appealing to Western countries over succession of Dalai Lama
July 6, 2024
Anti-euthanasia activism in Spain setting the tone for future Catholic political battles?
July 6, 2024
Christians seeking Aramaic identity in Israel meet obstacles
July 6, 2024
Indian election results cast shadow on Hindu nationalist aspirations
July 6, 2024
Evangelicalism meets quest for Berber identity in Kabylia
July 6, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of Groups, Movements, People, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
July 6, 2024
From culture wars to cultural nihilism: An interview with James Davison Hunter
June 10, 2024
Christian Science looking to greater lay and community roles to stem tide of decline
June 10, 2024
LDS missions enhance online presence while showing a rebound
June 10, 2024
American diaspora taking lead in pushing for reform in Zoroastrianism
June 10, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
June 10, 2024
Ordination of deaconess in Africa stirs Orthodox world, but consequences are unclear
June 10, 2024
Russia drawing the spiritually disenchanted to a new “American dream”?
June 10, 2024
India’s schools contending over influence of Hindu nationalism
June 10, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
June 10, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
June 10, 2024
Mediating institutions facing new secular challenges
May 13, 2024
Young adults finding Catholic-based volunteer service model a poor fit
May 13, 2024
Backlash grows against “Christian nationalist” label, media hype
May 13, 2024
LGBTQ movement taking on religious trappings through its rituals
May 13, 2024
Jewish campus groups experience revival after October 7
May 13, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
May 13, 2024
Regionalization plans in global churches reflecting fragmentation or potential schism?
May 13, 2024
South Asian revivalist Islamic movements and their political potential
May 13, 2024
Jewish community negotiating secular, migration changes in Finland
May 13, 2024
Between tradition and innovation, women ulama issuing fatwas in Indonesia
May 13, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
May 13, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
May 13, 2024
Psychology’s religious revival
April 8, 2024
War in Ukraine and its impact on religious freedom
April 8, 2024
Evangelicals dividing on the finer points of gender and sexuality
April 8, 2024
Evangelicals and raunchy culture—a new affinity or reaction?
April 8, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
April 8, 2024
Israel, Hamas, and AI’s religion problem?
April 8, 2024
Fasting reinvented in post-Catholic Austria and France
April 8, 2024
Protestant-Catholic tensions grow even in post-Catholic Europe
April 8, 2024
Post-zero Covid China sees upsurge in spiritual seeking among young
April 8, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
April 8, 2024
Christian Nationalists’ identity dilemmas
March 12, 2024
Lent viewed as alternative to D.I.Y. Christianity by younger Christians
March 12, 2024
Wide range of conservative Christians take up the veil
March 12, 2024
Women gaining entry to Sikh leadership in the U.S.
March 12, 2024
In wake of scandals, 3HO movement signs on to DEI and seeks Sikh ties
March 12, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
March 12, 2024
Role of Orthodox military chaplains enhanced in Russia
March 12, 2024
Deep changes underway in Islam in West Africa
March 12, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
March 12, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of Groups, Movements, People, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
March 12, 2024
Signs of détente in relations between Vatican and China
February 9, 2024
Community organizing programs changing mainline seminaries
February 9, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
February 9, 2024
Baltic Neo-Pagans attempting to expand their legal status
February 9, 2024
Russian Orthodox clubs offering young men an alternative masculinity?
February 9, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
February 9, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
February 9, 2024
Reviewing 2023—a year of schisms and rumors of schisms
January 5, 2024
Same-sex blessings as a new dividing line within Roman Catholicism
January 5, 2024
Schism and conflict looming for America’s most liberal church?
January 5, 2024
Hispanic folk healers at the border move into mainstream
January 5, 2024
Crossbreeding of witchcraft and spirituality with the help of technology?
January 5, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
January 5, 2024
Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas date change challenges Russian influence, finds mixed response
January 5, 2024
Faith-based social services in Czech Republic torn between tradition and secularism
January 5, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
January 5, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of Events, People, Movements, and Groups Impacting Contemporary Religion
January 5, 2024
Pro-life movement shedding religious language as pro-choice activists invoke spirituality
December 12, 2023
Shared prophetic teachings a factor in Middle East conflict?
December 12, 2023
In a “negative world,” evangelical support a liability for Israel?
December 12, 2023
Islam gaining admirers, converts after October 7
December 12, 2023
Nones drawn to psychedelic congregations, experiences?
December 12, 2023
CURRENT RESEARCH
December 12, 2023
Tensions between Russian and Romanian Orthodox churches rise in Moldova
December 12, 2023
Halal food producers seek potential market among non-Muslim customers amidst restrictions
December 12, 2023
Findings & Footnotes
December 12, 2023

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