Witchcraft, a term loaded with fear and kitsch, dredges up images of pointy hats and bubbling cauldrons. But for an ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

Some of those include religions such as Wicca, which includes additional beliefs in magic and the practice of witchcraft and Druidry, which places particular emphasis on cultivating a strong ...

The review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution. Christians were the most persecuted religious ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday told a Catholic news outlet he was open to the idea of exempting religious organizations from covering the cost of in vitro fertilization—a procedure he ...

The Republican presidential nominee has pledged enhanced access to the White House. “It will be directly into the Oval Office — and me.” By Elizabeth Dias As voters head to the polls on ...

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 ...

Lives of Great Religious Books is a series of short volumes that recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world. Written for general readers by ...