If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

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A new book follows Lyman Beecher, his boundary-pushing children, and their grand ambitions to improve the world.

Once viewed as peripheral players, Protestant churches have risen over the past two decades to become influential actors in the spiritual and political realms across Latin America.

America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were newcomers from Germany, Ulster, France, etc. What made them immigrants?

University of Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Talia Lavin’s Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America is an angry response to the rise of American ...

Freedom and rules: The Passover paradox. This strange juxtaposition of liberation and legalism strikes a paradoxical note. Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules?

It’s flaring now, in Donald Trump’s America, among a populace that craves an autocratic punisher, openly worships the wealthy, and easily succumbs to us-versus-them thinking—just as the ...

Although the first Amish arrived in America in the mid 1700s, the European Anabaptist movement began well before that, in 1525, as a radical wing of the Protestant Reformation.

The secret life of America’s modern Amish. THEY’RE notoriously reclusive, but there’s so much more to Amish communities than horse-drawn buggies and hand-churned butter.