In 2020, much of the world went into shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the shutdown came many aspects of people’s lives moving online, including religious practices. In the case of the Catholic Church, Masses...
Palestinian Liberation Theology (PLT), a movement founded by Naim Ateek in Jerusalem in 1989, strives for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. It developed as a religious response to a cultural and political...
Around 1900 Syrian Jews immigrated to the Lower East Side to create new economic opportunities. Today they live in Brooklyn in an established ethnic and religious enclave from the surrounding American and American Jewish...
In academic circles, the extent to which ideas of Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (d. 1951) are comparable to Zen Buddhist thought has been explored since at least 1958 with the publication of Paul Wienpahl’s...
Stories of supernatural or miraculous acts have existed since religion itself. One does not have to look far for stories of people or beings having the power to heal others, move unmovable objects, levitate, acquire unforeseen...