While religious minorities have often faced hostility, many Americans have long believed in religious liberty and a more ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

The formation and evolution of public holidays are shaped by the interplay of social, economic, historical, political, ...

The USI Anthropology Speaker Series presented “The Ancestors and I: Studying Ancestor Worship in Indonesia” Friday, April 10, ...

Shariati’s legacy endures as a reminder that religion, when reinterpreted through the lens of justice and resistance, can ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

Indeed, chimps have been documented killing each other before, but usually one-off in events rather than in conflict between ...

Heartworm’s global spread likely stems from ancient canid hosts, not recent human activity. Findings may reshape treatment ...

A mysterious Greek inscription found beneath the Great Mosque of Homs could pinpoint the long-debated location of an ancient sun temple. Scholars now think the mosque sits atop a sacred site that ...

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the ...

(RNS) — Released during or close to Black History Month, the books provide a faith-oriented look at African American history and analyses of women in ministry and changing demographics and technology.

My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...