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The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

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 murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton has reignited debate in the United Kingdom over the legal right of Sikhs ...

The science vs. religion debate is critical today psychologically because of how closely it ties to questions of meaning in a time when meaning so often escapes us. The Creative Systems Theory concept ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) Shortly before noon, the Muslim call to prayer rang out from the imposing Al-Omari Mosque across the mixed Jewish-Arab town of Ramla, wafting over a crowded market. No ...

Religion is as foundational to human rights as it is problematic. While Larry Cox argues that human rights and religion need one another, it is still unclear whether they hinder each other more than ...

President Donald Trump, speaking to a sprawling crowd at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday (Feb. 5), returned to his personal tradition of using the bipartisan convening as an ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...

When I tell people that I conduct work in the field of evolutionary psychology, a common response is about like this: “Oh, I bet you get a lot of resistance from religious people!” And folks are often ...