Most people who switch religions do not join another tradition; they leave religion altogether. Christians and Buddhists are ...

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In our last discussion on human freedom, we reflected on the idea of fate and human destiny from the religious views of three ancient cultures, the peoples of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. Today ...

The Western Wall is one of the most sacred and contested religious sites in the world. Originally a retaining wall for the Second Temple, it has become a focal point of Jewish prayer and identity. But ...

Here’s the gist: Western understandings of religion have been defined by the Anglo-Protestant tradition. Those of us who have taught about world religions know this by heart.

Protestantism's Fathers Who are the Fathers of Protestantism? For a series of lectures (at Jewish Theological Seminary of America) on "Classics of Western Religion," Canada-born ...

Many of today’s college students question the tenets of Western religion and exhibit deep interests in Hinduism and Buddhism, Mullinax says.