Perception and transcendence. In The Visible and the Invisible, his final and unfinished work, the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty developed his earlier phenomenology of sense perception into ...

For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising transcendence and community, but failing to deliver.

Writer Jia Tolentino chased 'ego death' — first in religion, ... It's about the ecstasy of transcendence. It's about God and psychedelics and finding comfort in chaos. See for yourself.

After reading and writing about two books that include lengthy discussions of the origins of religion—E. O. Wilson’s The Social Conquest of the Earth for The New Criterion and Oliver Sacks’ ...

Ultimately, Smith arrived at four pillars of living a meaningful life: belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling. But Smith’s curiosity about the good life began even earlier, with her ...

Does digital data offer indicators that can be used to monitor marketing effectiveness and predict box office success even before awareness turns into intent? We analyzed this weekend’s new ...

As America's attitudes toward religion have continued to shift, it was perhaps inevitable that Americans would now worship at the altar of work instead. There's a word for seeking such validation ...

It is also important to make a distinction between spirituality and religion. For the purposes of this blog, religion is conceptualized as a set of formalized behaviors (e.g., prayers, meditations ...

Re “Religion’s Role, Revisited,” by Lauren Jackson (Sunday Styles, April 20): About a third of the way into this essay, I realized that the author was on the wrong track. Religion is not ...

Or if you have a distant memory of a religious practice—perhaps from your youth—you might just slip into a service and sit in the back, observing without judgment or expectation. 2. Read more.