The new policy, which the Pentagon framed as a largely administrative action, leaves just 31 religious categories to choose from, 22 of which are Christian.

Belief has shaped humanity from the earliest stone temples to the great religions of the modern world. Across thousands of years, people created gods, told sacred stories, built monuments, and developed traditions that influenced entire civilizations.

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Professor Paul Finkelman has asked me to post the following guest post, and I am more than happy to do so. Prof. Finkelman is a leading legal scholar and legal historian, and is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public ...

The history of human spirituality may be as old as humanity itself, yet the formation of organized religions is a more recent phenomenon. The oldest religions in the world have shaped cultures, laws, and history. These religions offer insight into the ...

While the number of Americans who were raised in homes where parents had different religions appears to be growing, relatively few think of themselves as having been brought up in more than one religion, and even fewer say they currently belong to multiple ...

About 2,500 years ago something changed the way humans think. Within the span of two centuries, in three separate regions of Eurasia, spiritual movements emerged that would give rise to the world's major moral religions, those preaching some combination of ...

The merest acquaintance with the humans on planet Earth and their religions immediately raises two questions: (1) Why are there so many religions? and (2) Why are religious people so immune to data that concern their religion? In this post, we will address ...