01 January 2013
Religion in 2012 revealed new patterns of pluralism but also new signs of conflict over the role of religion in... Read more
Category: Articles
27 November 2012
American Catholics have widely accepted the changes in the Roman Catholic Mass to reflect a closer translation of the Latin... Read more
30 October 2012
In a new book, sociologists Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb seek to challenge the widespread view that religious beliefs and... Read more
28 September 2012
Catholics have threatened to stop the screening of a forthcoming Hindi movie directed by Priyadarshan, Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal, if certain... Read more
28 September 2012
The effort to reform the Catholic Church along liberal lines may result less in changing the church than in generating... Read more
06 September 2012
Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity are facing significant restrictions in China but they are also finding new ways to circumvent such... Read more
03 July 2012
The subject of testing prayer through scientific methods has become more contested in recent years because of the sharp variation... Read more
22 June 2012
Anticipation of the conservative liturgical changes brought by the Vatican in the last year has also likely spawned a revival... Read more
24 April 2012
American prisons are just as or more religious than the society outside their walls, especially in the high rate of... Read more
09 April 2012
A recent large gathering of atheists in Washington, D.C. served as another sign that atheism is finding a new level... Read more