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 we ...

Karl Marx famously coined religion the “opiate of the masses.” He argued that religion disconnects disadvantaged people from the here and now and dulls their engagement in progressive politics.

REL 110, 111: 6 s.h. Complete any four Religious Studies courses (3 of which must be at the 300 or 400 level): 12 s.h. 101 Exploring Religion. (3) (General Education/ Humanities) An introduction to ...

The problem with western organized religion these days, as far as Christianity and Islam, is that each group assumes that they are absolutely, without any doubt, correct. This is itself ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - You won't find the word "religulous" in a dictionary but it's a good bet it will be on protest signs when the documentary of that name, a jab-in-the-eye at Western religion, hits ...

This course examines roles of women and gender in religious traditions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Indigenous Traditions and Feminist New Age spirituality. This course ...

Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey on religion among Asian Americans, the largest nationally representative survey of its kind to date. In addition, to look more deeply into how Asian ...

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) In the wake of Said’s landmark work, Orientalism (Said 1979), scholars have been widely concerned with countering the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—After over 50 years as Western Michigan University’s Department of Comparative Religion, the department has a new name that reflects its diverse course offerings: the Department of ...