Lately these pages have seen some comments about how worthless and unnecessary, or even harmful, religion is. I would have to agree with that statement when it comes to almost all religions prior to ...

In a recent essay for The Atlantic, David Wolpe, a rabbi and visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, sizes up former president and insurrectionist Donald Trump as follows: “the lavishness of his ...

Long established as a leading sociologist of American religion, Stark has in recent years extended his methodology into increasingly speculative territory. Here he follows up his inquiry into the ...

Journal for the Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) In the wake of Said’s landmark work, Orientalism (Said 1979), scholars have been widely concerned with countering the ...

Throughout history, Jews have made remarkable contributions to science, culture, and the arts. Their curiosity, creativity, and intelligence have shaped ...

The explanation is that only one of one God’s ‘names’ is a personal name; all the other ‘names’ are appellations that refer to one of God’s many attributes or character traits. As the Qur’an states: ...