Anoush Ganjipour, a French-Iranian dual national philosopher, is a globally recognized authority in Islamic political thought and comparative philosophy with the West. Born in Tehran in 1978, as the ...

History occasionally produces events that overturn the intellectual frameworks used to interpret the modern world. The French Revolution did this in 1789 by demonstrating the political power of mass ...

This Monday, November 17, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), opened the General Assembly of the bishops in Assisi with a speech in which he stated that the end ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines how mysticism constitutes the deep narrative dynamics of the Bildungsroman from Goethe in the late eighteenth century to contemporary global literature. In the process of ...

The fact that Christian Smith has written an extremely important sociological study of American religion with Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America is hardly news. He ...

How Secular Are We? Posted: May 27, 2025 | Last updated: May 27, 2025 Andrew chats with Dr. Jason Josephson-Storm, scholar of religious studies, about the rise of exorcisms in the United States. We ...

As countries became more educated, their political views moved in a liberal direction. So, religious tolerance increased, and attitudes toward minorities became more favorable. In the digital age, ...

This is the 20th part of a series on Christianity and the history of antisemitism. While we are often reminded to “Never forget,” many of us were never taught this history. As European society became ...

The Catholic journalist’s new book updates Pascal’s wager for our secular-yet-spooky age. Something is happening. Christianity is having a moment. Our culture is shifting. Whether this change will be ...

Secularism has long been viewed as integral to modernization due to its connection with the Enlightenment. The broad secularization thesis suggests that as societies modernized, the influence of ...