04 July 2013 United States: sociologist seeks spirituality-health connections in everyday hospital life To understand the role that religion plays in American healthcare beyond the usual debates about the relation of faith and... Read more
09 January 2013 India: plans to boost faith tourism Faith tourism is "recession-proof". Multicultural India is planning to pitch faith tourism by developing more religious tourist circuits to attract... Read more
01 January 2013 2012: new diversity and conflict marks religion Religion in 2012 revealed new patterns of pluralism but also new signs of conflict over the role of religion in... Read more
30 October 2012 Africa: sociologists cite religion as a key factor in preventing and alleviating AIDS epidemic In a new book, sociologists Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb seek to challenge the widespread view that religious beliefs and... Read more
06 September 2012 China: religious revival reaching into businesses and driven by competition Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity are facing significant restrictions in China but they are also finding new ways to circumvent such... Read more
24 April 2012 United States: religion in American prisons thriving American prisons are just as or more religious than the society outside their walls, especially in the high rate of... Read more
03 January 2012 Religion in 2011: revolutionary and conservative Religion in 2011 was seen in dramatic revolutions but also in less sensational events and developments that suggest its... Read more
14 June 2010 United States: religious and spiritual scientists defying religion-science feud Most scientists are not the rabid atheists that they are often portrayed as, especially in the U.S., according to a... Read more
18 April 2010 Analysis: survey into the religious and ideological roots of Iran’s political crisis The Iranian Presidential Elections of June 2009 and its aftermath have touched off a flurry of analysis on the country's... Read more
16 June 2009 Religion in the world: book finds faith making a return—US-style Even as the debate continues about the place of capitalism in solving the world's economic problems, the new book, Read more