God’s work is worldly work, and religions are businesses like any other, argues The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People by Paul Seabright. Churches, mosques ...

Big Religion May Have Gotten Too Much Credit for the Evolution of Modern Society. Contrary to a popular hypothesis, pro-social religions didn’t kick-start complex social systems.

From papal reforms to psychedelics, here are the big religion stories RNS reporters expect to cover in 2024. Fiona Andre. Fiona Andre. (Courtesy photo) ...

The prospect of such upheaval also poses the first big political test for religions in the U.S. in the time of Trump 2.0. So far in these tense political times, the big story about religion is the ...

Some are mystical: Overlapping experiences of divinity across the big religions suggest some participation in a shared spiritual reality. These convergences are not just in the peace, ...

The big religious shifts of the past were the periodic Great Awakenings that beginning in the mid-1700s led to surges in religious attendance. This is the opposite: ...

Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was ...