General Articles
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
Recent “hate speech bills” and prosecutions of religious and political figures accused of discrimination in Canada and Europe may be evidence of “increasing intolerance in secular Western regimes,” writes religious-freedom activist Paul Marshall in the news service Religion Unplugged (March 31).
Mining in sacred lands in the U.S. and Australia is drawing new conflicts and creating unusual alliances between conservative religious-liberty groups, radical environmentalists, and some Native American tribes, writes sociologist Barry Kosmin in Free Inquiry magazine (February/March).
Sephardic Judaism, with its emphasis on maintaining tradition and peoplehood over mainstream acceptance and freedom, is poised to overtake Ashkenazic Jews in shaping the Jewish presence in the U.S., particularly after October 7 and the rise of anti-Semitism, writes Mijal Bitton in the current iss
Sources of data and research methodologies concerning anti-Christian violence in Nigeria have become a bone of contention between religious freedom advocates and secular academia, the media, and humanitarian workers in the West, writes Dennis Petri in his Substack newsletter Five4Faith (