General Articles
A new kind of “brainwashing” theory is making the rounds in anti-cult groups and even being employed by governments and courts to target new religious movements (NRMs), write Marco Respinti and Massimo Introvigne in the newsletter Bitter Winter (July 2).
Many of the kinds of groups, leaders, and strategies that were present before major jihadist terrorist attacks in the past, including 9/11, are again finding a following, writes Sara Harmouch in the Terrorism Monitor (July 16).
The day following the episcopal consecrations of four priests by the two remaining bishops of the Society of St.
While Muslim soccer players have entered elite ranks and have long observed their faith on the field and off, this year’s World Cup shows how soccer is no longer “the sole purview of Christendom...[S]occer has peacefully and with little fanfare become a game shared between the world’s two and a h
While only a distinct minority of American Muslims embrace Islamism, the ideology seeking to capture state power in order to impose Islamic law and rejecting any separation between religious authority and political life, younger, more assimilated Muslims are increasingly drawn to political radica
The lucrative market of celebrity- and influencer-endorsed beverages has expanded into religious branding with the emergence of dedicated Christian energy drinks, writes Lydia Bugg in The Guardian (June 4). As Anna Rees Green remarks, the U.S.
Alongside similar measures across the country, a new anti-conversion law in the Indian state of Maharashtra is making it increasingly difficult for Indians to change their faith, reports Ulrich von Schwerin in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (June 16).
Published in the French Catholic weekly La Vie (May 22), an article by Timothée de Rauglaudre reports on the discreet and somewhat paradoxical phenomenon of left-leaning Catholics—anticapitalists, ecologists, and LGBTQ people among them—who are drawn to the traditional Latin (Tridentine)
Seventh-Day Adventist creationist museums are outpacing evangelical ones and rapidly spreading in Latin America, writes Irina Podgorny in the current issue of the religion and science journal Zygon (March).
While the Boy Scout movement has secularized and lost members in the last decade, more religious scouting programs have emerged in the U.S. and Europe, writes Christopher Motz in First Things magazine (June/July).