Defining religion isn’t as simple as it seems. Is it belief in God, a system of rituals, or a cultural tradition? Scholars have debated this for centuries, offering competing definitions from ...

Last week, Pope Francis met with the leadership team of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (INSeCT), which includes more than 20 member societies from across five continents.

When is yoga religious, and when is it… not religious enough? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll find out why these frameworks we call “religions” are so hard to define, and why our ...

To christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels (“New Fab,” “New Frontier”), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes (“post-abstractionism”).

As a psychologist, I am a scientist of human behavior. I am accountable to what can be understood scientifically through empiricism. And yet empiricism is not the only method we use to explore reality ...

One of my favorite lines of Jesus appears at the end of his parable about the laborers in the vineyard and comes in the form of the landowner's question to some disgruntled workers: "Are you envious ...

Here is an (incomplete) list of challenges faced by religion in today's world: anti-intellectuality, attempts at enforcing trust in God, becoming a political tool for power, boredom, bullying and ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...