Tag: Religion and society
Religious freedom and LGBTQ rights are clashing in schools and on...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
Disputes over religious freedom and LGBTQ rights in the United States have led...
How medieval Catholic traditions of thanksgiving prayers and feasting shaped the...
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
President Abraham Lincoln instituted the celebration of Thanksgiving as a national...
Rock music has had sympathy for God as well as the...
David W. Stowe, Michigan State University
After three multiplatinum and six platinum albums, 30 million albums sold and more...
What is the rosary? Why a set of beads and prayers...
Kayla Harris, University of Dayton
It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our...
Mormon church’s celebration of Latino cultures puts spotlight on often-overlooked diversity
Brittany Romanello, Arizona State University
Every November since 2002, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has held...
Halloween’s celebration of mingling with the dead has roots in ancient...
Tok Thompson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the...
The 5,000-year history of writer’s block
Joyce Kinkead, Utah State University
Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that...
‘Animism’ recognizes how animals, places and plants have power over humans...
Justine Buck Quijada, Wesleyan University
A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
