When I started studying sociology of religion, one of the interesting human activities I found is what anthropologists call “rites of intensification.” These activities have been found by ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

NAGASAKI >> Descendants of Kakure Kirishitans, or “hidden Christians” of the 17th to 19th centuries, are planning to make a video about the lives of their ancestors for posterity. The chronicle will ...

Yeshiva University, in New York City, has its roots in a school teaching Jewish immigrants and their children Hebrew, the Talmud and some secular subjects. Today, it still requires male students to ...

The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...

* Faith groups adapt religious rites * Groups aim for sensible advice By Farah Master LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) - Faith groups in Britain are adapting their religious rites in a bid to prevent the ...

Last summer, in one of the Supreme Court term’s headlining cases, Mahmoud v. Taylor, the justices ruled that – sometimes, at least – parents have a constitutional right to pull their young kids from ...