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.
Everything about Nigerian Pentecostalism is huge — the churches, the checkbooks, and the political clout.