Organized religions serve many different functions today from running charities and hospitals to generating laws and providing political organization. Yet, most of these complex social functions have ...

We have, at The Heritage Foundation, established a long-term project to examine the question of whether Islam is compatible with Western notions of liberty. It is exploratory in nature. We hope that ...

This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Get weekly roundups of the project in your email inbox by signing up for the Living Our Faith newsletter. Over ...

A belief in God may have promoted the evolution of cooperative behaviour, say Canadian psychologists. They found that priming people with religious concepts makes them more generous — regardless of ...

In his first book, Nongbri, a postdoctoral researcher who earned his Ph.D. at Yale, provides a succinct history of the development of the concept of religion. Through detailed analyses of ancient ...

Adis Duderija is lecturer in the study of Islam and society at Griffith University. The term Salafism - like jihad - has been absorbed into mainstream Western media discourse, especially with the rise ...

When subconsciously exposed to religious ideas and concepts, religious people are far more likely to actively punish those they believe are acting selfishly and unfairly, a new study has revealed.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Archbishop Rummel High School on Saturday in Metairie, La. Scalia said the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country’s constitutional ...