Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is widely understood to be a right-wing force in US politics. But just over 100 years ago, Mormons were at the center of a religious socialist renaissance in Utah.
How some world religions imagine the apocalypse.
History is full of dynamic religious leaders who were not, in the end, the messiah.
Walter Benjamin grew up in a secular family, but later combined Jewish messianism with Marxism in order to reignite past hopes in present struggles.
Mixing Bible verses with class-struggle rhetoric, Shawn Fain’s pro-labor Christianity stands in a rich tradition brimming with scripture-quoting union workers and labor leaders.
A little-known ruling has crushed unions at religious colleges and universities all over the country.
After a year of huge strikes and rising militancy, workers look to carry the momentum forward into 2024.
It’s tempting to see America’s declining religiosity as nothing but good news for the Democrats. The real picture is more complicated.
Last month, socialist NY Assembly member Zohran Mamdani organized a public iftar in his district in Astoria, Queens, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza — a modest attempt to build international solidarity at the most local political level.
Nigeria’s Pentecostal pastors have brought their angels and devils into the halls of power.
The Catholic Church is responsible for a litany of injustices. But the glorious tradition of liberation theology can’t be forgotten.
Buddhist nationalism has been a central tenet of Myanmar’s politics since independence. A new alliance against the military dictatorship could finally change things.
A century after Rudolf Steiner, Germany is still in thrall to a spiritualist message that emphasizes the healing power of nature.
South Korea is home to hundreds of Christian offshoots. Many of these groups are more cult than church.
Even in Europe, where so many have fought and died for Christianity, the churches are closing their doors.
French historian Maxime Rodinson transformed our understanding of the Muslim world with books like Muhammad and Islam and Capitalism. We revisit his pathbreaking work.
Global religious demographics are in the midst of a slow but inexorable shift.
In a region of high inequality and Catholic dominance, Uruguay is twice an outlier.
Saudi Arabia exports oil and Islamic fundamentalism around the world.