(The Conversation) — 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.

Two influential speakers will face off next month at the University of Colorado in a debate titled: "What’s so Great About God? – Atheism vs. Religion." The debate, organized by the school’s Aquinas ...

Mark Silk provides a good write-up of some of the in-fighting that is emerging amongst politically progressive religious groups. This fissure was visible to a lesser degree at the 2006 Progressive ...

For many in the American Hindu community, the comment read less like an intimate marital insight and more like a dismissal of Usha’s faith. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) responded on social ...

Today’s religious-flavored debates over abortion, science and intelligent design, homosexuality and morality in media had equally emotional counterparts in 1920s fights over Prohibition, the teaching ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

The Kano State Films and Video Censorship Board (KSCB) has banned all form of religious debate in the state The board announced the prohibition of public debates among praise singers of Prophet ...

The emergence of Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, a northern Christian from Plateau State, as the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress has begun to stir speculation that the APC may be ...