America holds a unique place in the faith’s teachings, but awareness of the church’s often precarious place in US culture has made it wary of mixing religion and state.
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The soldiers and patriots who made the American Revolution a success included people whose faiths faced discrimination, including Jews and Catholics.
The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech.
Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.
The history of Black religious life in the US includes people of all faiths using their beliefs to fight for social justice.
In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.
Both major parties leaned in to the Bible and Christianity at their recent conventions, but in very different ways.
Donald Trump is the champion for America’s fast-growing Christian nationalist movement and its deeply conservative agenda.
Flagpoles outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito have displayed symbols used by Trump supporters and Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
Religious beliefs can provide motivation, hope and endurance in the long and often discouraging task of mobilizing people for social change.
The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise in Christian nationalism, writes a religion scholar.
Much of the tourism industry that’s sprung up around Amish areas says more about Americans’ own identity than Amish values, a scholar writes.
Specific beliefs may have more to do with people’s vaccine views than their religious affiliation – but it depends on which vaccine you’re talking about.
Pat Robertson, founder of the global Christian Broadcasting Network, blended religion into American politics and played an important role in the Republican Party.
Christian nationalist ideas are about more than simply being religious and patriotic. They form a worldview about how the nation should be structured and who belongs there.
Politics in Ghana is heavily influenced by the Christian majority of the population.
Distrust of government blended with strains of Christian fundamentalism can produce a violent form of Christian nationalism, a scholar explains.
The Supreme Court ruled May 2, 2022, in Shurtleff v. Boston, a free speech case.
A scholar who studies biblical texts explains how the Bible, its laws, and ancient debates were set within a complex vision of society at that time.
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Baylor University
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Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
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Professor of History and African-American Studies, University of Montana
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Early Christian History and Literature, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Academic Dean and Professor of Hebrew Bible, Knox College, University of Toronto
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Professor of English, University of Dayton
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, West Virginia University
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Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Professor Emeritus of Politics, London Metropolitan University