The social justice comedian on her embarrassing patriotism, bringing public policy to the stage, and making white people laugh.
Sara Elkamel interviews Aya Aziz about Islam, sexuality, and the dimensions of the self.
Claire Schwartz interviews Sigal Samuel about Kabbalah, queer Jews, and religion as literature.
At Tepe Naranj, archaeologist Zafar Paiman is working to preserve the remnants of an ancient monastery—and the memory of Afghanistan’s Buddhist past.
Lessons of peace, unity, and selflessness collide with ethnic cleansing in Modi’s India.
A house is partitioned along the lines, and in the chaos, of the new independent nations of India and Pakistan.
The repercussions of being Muslim after the Paris Attacks
Violence and citizenship in Assam, as experienced by its forgotten
Myanmar’s newest monks and the politics of almsgiving.
The city of lights, migrant refugees, and gay Muslim weddings.
The politics of Christianity in Guatemala.
Two acts of terrorism stir up memories of the West Bank and homophobia.
On violence against children after the Peshawar tragedy.
When we moved to the Ella Valley, my partner and I took great care not to build on land that might have belonged to Palestinians before the war of 1948.
Religion in America: The Devil as part of a rather American tradition.
The climate scientist on denialism and why her evangelical faith demands action.
Religion in America: Why does our humanity mean we are at once of God and utterly separate from Him?
The transgender rabbi on religious rituals, gender fluidity, and the language of LGBTQ inclusion.
Religion in America: Muslim revert Kenny Irwin Jr.’s Robolights display is a fixture of Christmas in Southern California.
The Hare Krishna monk on cultural stereotypes, teaching faith through food, and America’s obsession with yoga.
The artist discusses Hinduism in the diaspora, religious imagery, and her new show, Eyes of Time.
Pilgrimages to a master of mysteries in the Bronx.
Jung’s concept of synchronicity was supposed to help us understand the world’s more wondrous events. Then Self-Help hijacked the idea to make it all about us.
At the top of the pantheon of spirits in Burma are the Thirty-Seven Nats. Twirling on earth, in a shimmering shawl, is their 74-year-old medium, U Nan Win.
In the South’s bloodiest prisons, Baptists say they can reform prisoners by turning them into missionaries.
The scholar of African-American religion on black megachurches and the marketability of the American Dream.
When the religious right co-opts the push to reinvigorate civics education, dubious legislation reveals the most powerful people in public schools.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgians turned en masse to religion. Today, the Orthodox Church’s conservative beliefs are clashing with the country’s increasingly close ties to the EU.
On the paradox of LGBT churchgoers, Mississippi’s copycat anti-gay bill, and the South’s damaging culture of politeness.
A heart-fixer is he, there is nothing he does not see...
The Signs Followers of southern Appalachia prefer not to be called “snake-handlers."
Faith continues to both unite and divide Americans.
After an itinerant childhood with her missionary family, a young woman discovers the distances that remain.
The third installment of The Social Author explores social authorship and holy texts.
The journalist and "accidental theologist" discusses distinguishing human from legend in her latest book on the founder of Islam.
The director of the Arab Association of New York talks with Meaghan Winter about mosque monitoring, civil liberties, and kids asking 'why do they hate us?'
Trying to make sense of sacrifice is like watching / gravediggers bury something in the shade of trees.
After Sunday's shootings, Sikh Americans in Milwaukee and elsewhere need and deserve an informed response.
As Islamists across the Arab World continue to enshrine sharî’a concepts in their constitutions, noted academic Tariq Ramadan asks, are other alternatives available?
In an excerpt from his posthumous graphic memoir, Pekar contends with his identity and the Jewish state.
Exploring minority religions in Poland, Katarzyna Majak’s images probe prejudice against witchery, questions of aging, and feminine divinity.
Sadakat Kadri on Muslim and Western ignorance of what Shari'a law really means--and the real concerns that should be targeted.
France has institutionalized discrimination against Muslims, Sikhs, and Jews—but that hasn't stopped India, home to large populations of Muslims and Sikhs, from brokering an international arms deals with the country.
For over 30 years, we gave Egypt the shaft, because it was in our national interest to do so. Now it’s time for Egypt to find out where its own interests are, without a strongman leading the way. The country has a difficult and terrible road to walk.
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