The Left Side of the Church
The Catholic Church is responsible for a litany of injustices. But the glorious tradition of liberation theology can’t be forgotten.
18514 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
The Junta and the Monks
Buddhist nationalism has been a central tenet of Myanmar’s politics since independence. A new alliance against the military dictatorship could finally change things.
All-Natural Holistic Germany
A century after Rudolf Steiner, Germany is still in thrall to a spiritualist message that emphasizes the healing power of nature.
Peoples Temple 2.0
South Korea is home to hundreds of Christian offshoots. Many of these groups are more cult than church.
(More) Church Conversions
Even in Europe, where so many have fought and died for Christianity, the churches are closing their doors.
Maxime Rodinson And the Muslim World
French historian Maxime Rodinson transformed our understanding of the Muslim world with books like Muhammad and Islam and Capitalism. We revisit his pathbreaking work.
God’s Own Country
Global religious demographics are in the midst of a slow but inexorable shift.
Losing My Religion
In a region of high inequality and Catholic dominance, Uruguay is twice an outlier.
Wahhabism on Wheels
Saudi Arabia exports oil and Islamic fundamentalism around the world.
Megarich Megachurches
Everything about Nigerian Pentecostalism is huge — the churches, the checkbooks, and the political clout.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!
Meet the princely imam financing neoliberal development in Central Asia.
Richer Than God
Sophisticated Wall Street tactics have blessed the LDS Church with billions.
Why New Atheism Failed
The New Atheists had reactionary politics and a distorted view of science, but they owe their demise to a more fundamental flaw in their ideology: religion can’t explain all the world’s problems.
Learning From Pat Robertson
Once marginal and reviled, evangelical Christians became a vital political bloc in the 1980s thanks to resolute organizing.
The Epoch Times’ Unholy Journalism
How a new religion’s pro-Trump rag became one of the world’s fastest-growing newspapers.
A Megachurch for the Glamorous
Blessed with celebrity congregants, the evangelical Hillsong Church was poised to take America by storm before it fell prey to sex scandals. Now megachurch America is following its blue-state blueprint.
The Divine Right
Studying the Holy Scriptures with the leading lights of the GOP.
Issue 53: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Israel’s Useful Idiots
With the war in Gaza, it seems only one side’s blood and pain gets much attention in the US media.
God Complex
Evangelical Christians are major supporters of Israel — because they think its existence heralds the Second Coming of Christ.