For farmers breaking away from conventional agriculture, the Kentucky farmer-poet was a powerful example of someone who combined faith with a commitment to the environment.
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‘The Bible Belt’ has been used for a century to describe religion and politics in the South. But it captured just some of life in the region then – and doesn’t capture what’s going on today.
The ‘Rededicate 250’ rally raised questions about separation of church and state. Jefferson and Madison’s many letters to each other shed light on that much-debated principle.
Debates about religion’s role in America often circle back to the country’s founding documents.
From its earliest centuries, Christianity was bound up with politics, with frequent tensions between government power and religious authority.
An anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian persecution abroad and the suspicion surrounding migrants in the contemporary US.
For some Americans, biblical prophecies about the end-times serve as a guide to conflicts in the Middle East today.
There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not even in medieval ‘Christendom.’
The religion gap between American men and women may be narrowing, a scholar explains – reflecting a seeming ‘God gap’ in US politics.
History shows that governments’ attempts to strengthen religious institutions can backfire.
New research from sociologists finds that local Catholic leaders are more likely than many other Christian clergy to speak about immigration with their congregations.
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but Republicans have tried to get rid of it before.
How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the Christian right today.
The 1798 rebellion aimed at creating a secular state with equal rights regardless of religion.
A common assumption holds that nonreligious Americans vote for liberal candidates. The reality isn’t so simple.
Russia’s emphasis on what it deems family values comes from the top, but some of the policies that most impact Russians are implemented by regional governments.
Cardinals play an important role, whether in serving as papal ambassadors or in shaping public opinion, and they have done so over the centuries.
Christians are diverse in terms of race, denomination, theology and other factors. Yet on average, some of their views are growing more similar, a scholar argues.
Hegseth’s Christian views have been shaped by a 20th-century movement, Christian Reconstruction, which seeks to make America a Christian nation built on biblical law, writes a religion scholar.
The ‘Courage Tour,’ a religio-political rally, is going around battleground states. It is focused on defeating Democrats, but also on defeating ‘demonic forces.’
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Professor of Practice, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
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Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of History and African-American Studies, University of Montana
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Associate Teaching Professor in Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Adjunct Professor of Religious and Theological Studies, St. Edward's University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies, Pitzer College
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Baylor University
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Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson College
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Professor of history, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Monash University