Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology ...

The United Arab Emirates has officially approved a symbol to represent the Dirham currency unit. The Central Bank UAE has unveiled the physical form and the digital form of the new symbol. Previously, ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath assured safety for people of all religions in the state, emphasizing the cessation of communal riots since 2017. He highlighted the tolerant nature of ...

King's comparatively easygoing approach, forged by Christian virtues, rubbed some Black leaders the wrong way. He was often ridiculed by contemporaries, including renowned adherents of the Nation ...

(Busà Photography/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine rates of religious switching in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

(RNS) — The religious freedom watchdog urged the new Trump administration to appoint a new ambassador-at-large to address religious restrictions and persecution around the world. (RNS ...

I have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, philosophical and religious traditions. One of the most compelling aspects of ...

The news: Bellevue Gold shares tumbled in morning trade after one of the gold miner's largest shareholders, New York-based investment manager Van Eck Associates, sold a 1.5% holding in the gold miner.

Like most states, Wisconsin’s unemployment benefits law also contains an exemption for church-run nonprofits that are “operated primarily for religious purposes.” The state’s supreme court ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot MONTREAL — In an effort to reinforce secularism in schools, the Quebec government is planning to expand the province’s ban on religious symbols to everyone who ...