Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press), begins and ends in the same place: a farm outside of Waco, Texas, where in ...

Obeah had now become the arch-enemy of the oppressors. The penalty for the use of Obeah in insurrection, or even just imagining the killing of a white person, was hanging or being sent into exile.

The Tacky Slave Rebellion, the Haitian Slave Rebellion, and many other slave revolts in the Caribbean were masterminded by Africans steeped in the religious practices of their own ancestors. After the ...

A major new study on religious views in the United States finds – as Americans’ connection to organized religion continues to fade – there are deep divides over the appropriate role for ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God was released in 1937 after Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Obeah religious practices in Jamaica and Haiti.

If religion isn’t chosen for you, by inheritance or revelation, how can you credibly hope to choose one for yourself? Fortunately for the would-be seeker, this challenge is overstated.

African Journal of Gender and Religion, Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 2024), pp. 28-64 (37 pages) Against the backdrop of the demonization of Africana Religious Traditions (ARTs), peoples of African descent, ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks about top religion news stories of the year with Ruth Graham, national reporter at The New York Times, where she covers religion, faith, and values.

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

Under the U.S. Constitution, public schools cannot promote or advance any particular religion, and they must respect the individual religious beliefs of students and staff. What that looks like in ...

Key points In the West, religion is usually equated with theism (i.e., belief in a personal god). We review the history of the term and describe how this meaning came about. We argue that a ...