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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).
Sexual abuse by Orthodox clergy occurs worldwide but remains largely unstudied and shrouded in silence, writes Hermina Nedelescu, a neuroscientist and theologian at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, in an article published in German in Religion and Gesellschaft in Ost und West
The media and other observers have struggled to put a face on Christian nationalism and Christian populism, but Pentecostal-Charismatic and Baptist traditions come closest to filling that niche, writes Dale Coulter in the newsletter The Protestant Mind (May 26).
In an analysis of Leo XIV’s first appointments published on the leading French geopolitical website Le Grand Continent (May 7), historian Jean-Benoît Poulle (Sorbonne University) argues that the new pope is reshaping the church’s leadership slowly but deeply, consolidating rather than re