Matthew Avery Sutton’s lively new book, Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity, is less a narrative than a counternarrative to how American religious history has ...

This valuable addition to the literature on American religious liberalism tells how Catholics and Protestants in Los Angeles drew upon the Social Gospel tradition, the Black power movement, and ...

The first person in history known to have promoted religious tolerance was Ashoka the Great. Ashoka was emperor of a large portion of Asia from about 268 BCE until his death in 232 BCE. In honor of ...

The premier museum on Maryland’s history has hired a curator to focus on one of the state’s proudest claims to fame: its profile as a haven for faith traditions. The Maryland Center for History and ...

Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court decision on Feb. 20, 2026. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted that it ...

Named after the sage Confucius (b. 551 B.C.E.), Confucianism is one of the most important philosophical traditions in China. Although it’s widely considered a spiritual philosophy, some scholars ...