The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School announced on ...

Bitcoin Jesus had it all. Wealth. Fame. The nickname "Bitcoin Jesus." Then came the indictment. On April 29, 2024, the United States charged Roger Keith Ver with mail fraud, tax evasion, and filing ...

In a new Divinity School course, students read accounts of the briefly deceased through the lens of anthropology and Islamic thought. As Elham Mireshghi walked around the International Association for ...

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The University of Chicago has announced the recipients of the 2026 Academic Communicators Network (ACN) Excellence Awards, which recognize scholars who excel in sharing their research and scholarship ...

With Templeton support, Professor Matthew Harris co-leads a project bringing together scholars to define a tradition that runs from astrology to Afrofuturism.What is metaphysical spirituality?

The group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant or simply the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS, or IS) has attracted much attention in the past few months with its dramatic military gains in ...

I teach courses about religious ethics and film, focusing on how movies depict heroes and villains. Students in these courses learn how to analyze the moral dimensions of film to discover how popular ...

Medieval Virgin-and-Child statues like the one owned by the Smart Museum of Art were once the most ubiquitous type of medieval devotional image. Those that have survived the vicissitudes of time are ...

Of all the astonishing moments of the Covid-19 pandemic, perhaps the most astonishing was the ferocity of the rejection of a vaccine that so effectively prevented most of the deadliest consequences of ...

In the summer of 2020, the evangelical world was rocked by scandal when two of its central arbiters of moral righteousness were accused of having engaged in a sexual relationship with another man.

The long, strange trip of Jewish spiritual exploration is a journey that begins in the desert wilderness, as recorded in the Book of Exodus, and continues up until the present day. On one level, ...