Tag: Religion and society
What loving-kindness meditation is and how to practice it in the...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
A popular New Year’s resolution is to take up meditation – specifically mindfulness meditation....
The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to...
Christian Goodwillie, Hamilton College
Director Mona Fastvold’s new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” features actor Amanda Seyfried in...
Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a...
3 states are challenging precedent against posting the Ten Commandments in...
3 states are challenging precedent against posting the Ten Commandments in public schools – cases that could land back at the...
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything...
From ‘mail-order brides’ to ‘passport bros,’ the international dating industry often...
Julia Meszaros, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Fifteen years ago, when I started studying the international dating industry, few people took...
‘Only death can protect us’: How the folk saint La Santa...
Myriam Lamrani, Harvard University
When a life-size skeleton dressed like the Grim Reaper first appeared on a street altar...
Washington state settles controversy over child abuse law that tested the...
Ann M. Murphy, Gonzaga University
For months, a Washington state bill generated controversy over two critical interests: protecting children...
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Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
