Beliefs

On old Catholic traditions and breaking bread with the dead.

What is the Enneagram? A personality typing system that has found a massive following among young American Christians.

It's a genuinely tough case with no good answers.

"He's acting like he was never a Scientologist, which is his way of not publicly speaking out and therefore not getting labeled like us and attacked like us," Leah Remini said.

How 15 perfect strangers helped me find my way home.

Amish society prioritizes the group over the individual. Which is why the Amish TikTok users seem so much like an oxymoron, and also why they're popular.

After making a fortune off Poo-Pourri, the serial entrepreneur is spreading her gospel of corporate mysticism.

How a techno-capitalist philosophy morphed into a justification for murder.

This week part of Ohio's state legislature decided students have a right to be wrong when it comes to their religion; screw whatever those nutty scientists say!

A dispatch from Pope Francis's efforts to combat climate change — and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face.

Evangelicals believed comedian John Crist could help spread the gospel to a wider audience. Then he was accused of sexual misconduct.

The FBI released new documents about "The Finders," which conspiracy theorists think was a CIA-linked child abuse cult. But were The Finders just misunderstood?

Who are the LeBarons, the Mexican-American Mormons who lost nine family members in a massacre on Nov 4?

In western China, the demolition of mosques and bulldozing of cemeteries is a continuing, relentless process.

It takes a "very special buyer" to want to live inside a century-old former church.

The best way to preserve a church in a shrinking city? Convert it to a mosque or temple.

But critics argue that the higher prices of grass-fed meat "challenge Islam's core egalitarian spirit."

Peloton aficionados say the latest exercise craze gives them a sense of community they sorely missed.

I grew up during the Satanic Panic and my evangelical dad thought it was the "Devil's Holiday."

The rapper discussed his Christian conversion, pornography addiction, and his upcoming albums (yes, plural).

One of the most popular skin care products also contains one of the most controversial ingredients.

Inspired by Marx's aphorism that "Religion is the opium of the people," the USSR commissioned a wealth of anti-religious artwork, much of it very clever and striking.

A framework meant to help people become more attuned to their partners now gets treated like a personality test.

New polling suggests that Trump's base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal.

The mysterious deals could reshape downtown Clearwater.

Between 1870 and 1960, Christianity declined dramatically across much of Europe. Not in America. One historian explains why.

Muslim women have been intimidated, harassed and kicked out for wearing modest bathing suits across America.

When a 26-year-old American missionary set out for a lush island in the Indian Ocean last year, it was with one objective in mind: to convert the uncontacted Sentinelese tribe, who had lived for centuries in isolation. John Chau's mission had ambitions for a great awakening, but what awaited instead was tragedy.

In a country known for being modern and precise, an ancient healing practice passed down from the heavens has surprising staying power.

Eighteen years after that last summer at camp, I'm a liberal writer in Brooklyn who spends Christmas at my parents' parish and Easter drinking wine instead of going to mass.

The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can't happen fast enough.

After a lifetime of attending evangelical churches, Lyz Lenz went on a journey to find a place where she didn't need to pretend to be an obedient wife, and not much else.

From its practices of "free love" (that make the Playboy Mansion look like Disney world), the sexual mentoring, the "bible communism" and experimentations in selective breeding, to the half-a-billion-dollar silverware manufacturing giant that it later became, the tale of the Oneida community is a strange one.

At a time when fewer young people are religious than ever before, we talk to millennial worshippers about what draws them to church, and whether faith and progressiveness are mutually exclusive.

Secular organizers started their own congregations. But to succeed, they need to do a better job of imitating religion.

People have warned me I'd need to be armed and in body armor to go to Marble.

"At times—reading through some of the cited court cases—it seemed like white supremacy was being treated like its own religion."

As people sour on the religious beliefs they grew up with, a new generation is embracing astrology apps, tarot cards, crystals and other spiritual beliefs.

Progressive waste laws are playing a game of "pass the trash" that falls mostly on poor, rural, minority communities in the South.

More and more young women are being called to the religious life, after 50 straight years of decline. What on earth is going on?

"If female Dalai Lama comes, then (she) should be more attractive," he told the BBC.

In a time of chaos and uncertainty, when traditional belief systems no longer seem to have all the answers, more and more young people are finding comfort in Satanism.

New research suggests having a mystical experience may have long-lasting benefits.

US Christian group condemns Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's story as "making satanism appear normal." Unfortunately, they've petitioned the wrong company.

On one man's journey through Christianity and crude.

Where are Americans turning for what religion has traditionally provided? We asked them.

Are spiritual beliefs an inevitable consequence of human evolution?

As a sex cult "grandmaster," Keith Raniere oversaw dungeon paddlings, brandings and naked meetings — but his most brutal form of punishment was emotional manipulation, said former slave Lauren Salzman.

Modern-day shamans in a variety of sectors appear to tame uncertainty by embracing their otherness.