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Congregations’ adoption of new offering and giving platforms during the pandemic shows how religious institutions are reaching wider followings but also experiencing greater inequality in the digital age, reports Arielle Pardes in Wired magazine (February 10).
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New ideas about race and racism are dividing American evangelicals, adding to conflicts over evangelical support for former President Donald Trump, according to an ar
Snake handling at the Church of God with Signs Following at Lejunior in Harlan County, Kentucky, 15 September 1946 (NARA).
A legal case in Switzerland is once again raising the question of the religious nature of yoga and similar practices, especially during a public health crisis.
The spread and impact of Covid-19 has “shaken the assumptions of some in the insular ultra-Orthodox world, swelling the numbers of those who decide they want out,” writes Isabel Kershner in the New York Times (February 17).
While the role of Islam has increased in Indonesia’s foreign policy and efforts have been made to promote the rights of Muslims persecuted abroad, the government has also taken its economic interests, regional relations, and domestic politics into consideration, while its own experienc
Monastic schools are a key mechanism in Myanmar’s education system to combat marginalization and aiming to include the poorest in society, as the government has come to recognize their importance in delivering education to segments of the population where the state system might be unab
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There is new division and conflict bet
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In the face of social and political polarization as well
The orthodox scientific view that has ruled out the existence of UFOs is coming into question—raising new dilemmas and prospects for the relationship between science and religion, writes University of Chicago anthropologist Hussein Ali Agrama in the science and religion journal Zygon (