In his first book, published a the ripe age of 26, Nietzsche observed that “life is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.” He never retreated from that bold pronouncement, and scholars have ...

In his new book, religious studies scholar Philip S. Francis uses personal stories from young evangelicals to explore how one’s experiences with art can dramatically reorient Christian beliefs and ...

A free yoga event in New York City’s Bryant Park, 2018. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images) Last May, the writer Tara Isabella Burton published a piece in the New York Times Sunday Review about ...

The Journal of the American Academy of Religion is generally considered to be the top academic journal in the field of religious studies. Now in volume 68 and with a circulation of over 10,000, this ...

Frank Burch Brown is a writer capable of shifting his focus in the space of a few pages from the magnificence of Byzantine worship in tenth-century Constantinople to the Precious Moments Chapel ...

Promey (Sensational Religion), a professor of religion at Yale, delivers an ambitious exploration of the public nature of religion in America. Locating an overlap between Christianity and capitalism, ...

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Colombo, September 20 (Daily Mirror) - Education Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya today assured that the current government has no intention of reducing religious education or aesthetic subjects in ...

In his poem-cycle, Jejuri, Arun Kolatkar showed how easily a trivial scrap of reality becomes transcendental in the environs of an Indian temple. Not necessarily in a spiritual sense — Kolatkar had ...

As most people who have more than a passing interest in religious belief and practice would be aware, we are today living through a variously troubling and exhilarating contradiction. On one hand, ...