PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - We all know that the First Amendment protects our right to freedom of religion. But how do you define "religion"? A Utah woman said she faced surprisingly little resistance when ...

When RD editors asked if I might be able to “bring some clarity to the dustup between Damon Linker (the Week) and the NY Times’ Mark Oppenheimer,” whom Linker takes to task for refusing to define ...

Recently, the New York Times’ religion writer appeared to throw up his hands in despair at trying to fix on a definition of religion—since the word seemed to cover everything from Pope Francis’ latest ...

The DeSantis administration, in encouraging introduction of religious chaplains into Florida’s public schools, has published a definition of “religion” that appears to exclude world faiths with ...

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.

(RNS) — The man who defended the Crusades talks about the definition of religion, the nature of atheism and the benefit of heresy. (RNS) — Among sociologists of religion, few names are as revered — ...

In 2014, I published a proposal for a definition of “religion”. My goal was to offer a definition of this contentious term that would include Buddhism, Daoism, and other non-theistic forms of life ...

Religious liberty has become a wedge issue among many conservative religionists and politicians. President Donald Trump and Franklin Graham, Billy's hard-right preacher son, are among those raising ...

Evangelical Protestantism (which I was an enthusiastic part of from 1977-1990, and retain many fond memories of and gratefulness for) is known for having lots of slogans and catch-phrases and mantras ...

A modest proposal, lowercase and capital. Here is a small project for a chilly Thursday night: let's rethink the way we talk about religious movies. (In other words, if you’re at the end of a long ...

A nation dedicated to gathering in the Jews of the world, Israel has never been able to answer a question basic to its existence: What is a Jew? Does a Jew become Jewish by birth, or by religious ...