If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

Anyone who doesn’t think that pop music is religious should consider the following five songs, which in my book are the greatest five pop songs of the 20th century: “God Only Knows ...

Photos by Giulia Gerosa for Thrillist Rome is a city of contradictions. It’s a place where an ancient aqueduct slices through a traffic circle, where you can sip a craft cocktail on the terrace of a ...

Alain Cugno: It is in nature that one experiences the possibility of transcendence. However, I believe that we see in the natural world the signs of transcendence that we ourselves put there.

For many centuries, churches and other religious institutions played an important role in caring for those with mental illness. In fact, leaders of religious orders were arguably the first to ...

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 ...

As Christian Smith argues in Why Religion Went Obsolete, it is widely recognized that traditional religion in America is in “a spiral of decline.”What is less understood is why. The book, as ...

For some, however, worldly concerns don’t satisfy their religious appetites and longing for transcendence. Religious passion can be a powerful force of good, but only when anchored in reality ...

Martin Scorsese has directed countless critically acclaimed movies steeped in violence and pathos, movies such as "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas" and most recently "Killers of the Flower Moon.". They ...

Essien, E.D. (2013) Notions of Healing and Transcendence in the Trajectory of African Traditional Religion Paradigm and Strategies. International Review of Mission, 102, 236-248. Login ...

Zopa Is Chasing Transcendence. ByDerek Scancarelli. Follow Author. Share. Save Comment. ... At first listen, the song might conjure questions of faith and religious texts.