The premier museum on Maryland’s history has hired a curator to focus on one of the state’s proudest claims to fame: its profile as a haven for faith traditions. The Maryland Center for History and ...

Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life will ...

Thursday — the extra day tacked onto the month of February this year — isn’t a holiday, but its historical significance lives on due to its quirky ties between space science and religion. While most ...

Communication and change in American religious history: A historiographical probe / Leonard I. Sweet -- Protestantism and capitalism: Print culture and individualism / Martin E. Marty -- Religion, ...

The debate over how religion should be addressed in American public schools has intensified after the Ohio House passed the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,” a bill that formally states teachers ...

Some two decades before Robert Bellah and his colleagues wrote the seminal 1985 book Habits of the Heart, which improved the public conversation about religion and society in the United States, Bellah ...

(The Conversation) — History shows that governments’ attempts to strengthen religious institutions can backfire. Celebrating the change, House Speaker Mike Johnson highlighted an argument that’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavation site Gird-î Kazhaw in the foreground; the modern village of Bestansur in the background. (CREDIT: DFG project Rural ...

First, a little overlooked history: the initial encounter between Europeans in the future United States came with the establishment of a Huguenot (French Protestant) colony in 1564 at Fort Caroline ...