Atheists are described as people who do not need religious explanations or the promise of an afterlife to see value in the human experience. Exploring whether this way of thinking could be ...
Plenty of studies over the last two decades have found that people who have some sort of religious faith tend to have somewhat better psychological well-being than those who aren’t religious.
This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Somewhere in the world, a meal, ritual, or offering is being prepared in religious observance—most likely by the ...
The mission of the Department of Religious Studies is to discover, explore, and analyze religious experience in its various manifestations emphasizing the Roman Catholic tradition, in dialogue with ...
Eighty-one percent of Americans say the law should not allow companies or other institutions to use religious beliefs to decide whether to offer a service to some people and not others.
November 3, 2024 • The Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy is raising up the next generation of Christian leaders focused on social justice. It's led by Rev. William Barber ...
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There is also a wide array of implications for religious freedom—both positive and negative. Already AI is being misused for disinformation, fake news, and surveillance. These are all factors ...
Her priest had offered her something that I could not. Religion, spirituality and prayer aid many patients, but in varying ways. Patients with serious disease and their families commonly feel fear ...
11 advertised the perils of religious fundamentalism, because the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis undermined the West’s strongest bastion of organized Christianity and because the digital ...