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Believer is not your average religion documentary, offering an outsider’s view of the spectacle of belief. Instead, Reza Aslan’s upcoming “spiritual adventure series” for CNN follows this noted Muslim…

When I listen to these albums, it feels like church, it feels like home.

Many Muslim American leaders, organizations and institutions are working to broaden the sphere of engagement.

The path to social democracy in the American context runs through American religion, not around it.

Their decision to participate in Trump’s inauguration epitomizes the Church’s priority of fitting within their surrounding culture, even at the expense of contrasting and competing values.

For the Shakers, God’s gender was always understood as dualistic, as containing both the masculine and the feminine, and leadership was often matriarchal.

Turkey wants Fethullah Gulen extradited to face charges that he was involved in the failed coup attempt against the Turkish strong man, Recip Erdogan, several months ago.

Readers are urged to quarrel with this list or make up their own list. The point is to keep hope alive.

He’s had a weird year.

The Internet functions as a sort of midway point between the personal and the public: you can be part of a community of fans, and yet you don’t have to bare the depths of your soul.