Conspiracy theories are nothing new in American history, but today conspiracy theories from QAnon to the Deep State are especially strong and divisive. Why? I believe that secularization and religious ...
The Just War Theory may seem a bloodless and abstract way to think about a subject that is among the worst impulses of the human race. However, Catholicism defines the conscience as a judgment of ...
As they do each winter, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players have commenced their G&S Fest 2013 – beginning the season with the most frequently produced of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas, The ...
(The Conversation) — Overcoming conspiracy theories isn’t just about information. A scholar of religion explains that the emotions they inspire are part of their appeal. Much of the commentary on ...
What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...
(The Conversation) — In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...
The debate over critical race theory has played out in TV studios, school board meetings and state legislatures across the U.S. It has also found its way into churches. The theory comprises a set of ...
This post was co-authored by Ken Baskin. As we described in a previous post, the concept of Religion 1 can refer to a wide variety of practices and beliefs. Many in the West think of Religion in terms ...
His theories of conversion and competition shaped widely held views of church growth and decline. Rodney Stark, the influential and controversial sociologist who argued for rational choice in religion ...
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