This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

Zeno of Citium, influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, developed Stoic philosophy to cultivate virtue and achieve tranquillity in an unpredictable world. The Stoics believed that true happiness ...

When asked his view of religion, Albert Einstein often invoked a 17th-century Dutch philosopher. “I believe in Spinoza’s God,” Einstein told a New York rabbi in 1929. What exactly he meant ...

There’s something very strange about religion. There have been recent appalling acts of terrorism, allegedly carried out in the name of religion. These attacks emphasise the recent findings of ...

(Ronald S. Green, Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Coastal Carolina University. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of ...

Richard Janko, a classicist at the University of Michigan, has called the papyrus “the most important new piece of evidence about Greek philosophy and religion to come to light since the ...

Social liberalism among Democrats has made them more skeptical of the role of religion — specifically Christianity — in public life. This, too, is relatively new, much of it occurring over the ...

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

A $2.3 million research grant intended to kickstart a multidisciplinary field of study known as “experimental philosophy of religion” concluded at the end of August after three years of study.

Scholars of religion like Nancy Ammerman suggest that spirituality as distinct from religion is somewhat of a branding exercise — we can label spiritual the parts of religion we like ...

This trend points to a broad global decline in religious affiliation and identity. The United States has seen one of the biggest drops: the share of its residents who said they belonged to a church, ...