Local residents burn paper offerings as a ritual for deceased ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival in Rongan, China. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) How we did this This report aims to explain the ...

The background of spirituality and religion falls in the category of the fallacy, “you love waffles, so you hate pancakes.” This fallacy involves creating a distorted version of an opponent’s ...

There is a long tradition of wondering about the mental health implications of religious practice. The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung famously claimed to have seen almost no practicing ...

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Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and views of the growing number of people around the world who are religiously ...

Religion, similar to volunteer work, is better kept private to preserve its authenticity. Religious adults generally make the ...

When the Pentagon cut roughly 180 faiths from its religious affiliation codes, shrinking the list from more than 200 categories to 31 in May 2026, it folded “Native American religion” into the broader ...

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Our university protects religious freedom by providing accommodations for religious observances under federal law and our Protected Class Nondiscrimination Policy. Accommodations can range from ...