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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters The 'Good Monk' Myth
How the Saffron Revolution, which transformed Burma ten years ago, obscured uncomfortable questions about Buddhist nationalism
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Guillaume Souvant / AFP / Getty / Shutterstock … What Went Wrong With France's Deradicalization Program?
By training at-risk youths in history, philosophy, literature, and religion, the government hoped to fight terrorism at its root.
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Faisal Nasser / Reuters A Saudi Woman's ‘Mixed Feelings’ About Winning the Right to Drive
“This is the problem with women’s rights in Saudi Arabia—it’s always used by the political system as a negotiation card.”
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters The Misunderstood Roots of Burma's Rohingya Crisis
“This fear is very deeply felt and not understood in the West—and it comes from a real place rooted in history.”
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Mark Crisanto / Reuters Does Aung San Suu Kyi Still Deserve a Nobel Prize?
As she presides over the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, the Burmese leader stands to lose her status as secular saint.
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Don Carstens / Getty Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience
What was it like inside the brain of an ancient prophet?
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters When Mormons Aspired to Be a ‘White and Delightsome’ People
A historian looks at the legacy of racism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Mike Huckabee and the Rise of Christian Media Under Trump
The former Arkansas governor has a new television show on Trinity Broadcasting Network, and a powerful first guest.
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Michel Spingler / AP The Muslim Feminist Group Scrambling France’s Left-Right Divide
On Islam, disagreements within the two political families may matter more than the differences between them.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters A Vatican Diplomat Has Been Recalled From the U.S. Following Child-Pornography Charges
The allegations come during a turbulent period for the Roman Catholic Church on sex-abuse issues.
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Angelo Hornak / Getty The First Brexit Was Theological
The untold story of Queen Elizabeth I’s alliance with the Islamic world—and what Theresa May could learn from it today
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Stephen Yang / Reuters Will Trump Direct FEMA to Fund Churches Hit by Hurricanes?
The president weighs in on a long-standing debate over using public money to support religious organizations.
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Delil Souleiman / Getty The Myth of the ISIS Female Suicide Bomber
She is almost entirely fictitious—so why are some people so keen to believe otherwise?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Should a Judge's Nomination Be Derailed by Her Faith?
During a recent hearing, Democratic senators pushed an appellate-court nominee to explain how her religious beliefs would affect her legal decisions.
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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters Can Anyone Stop Burma’s Hardline Buddhist Monks?
Their anti-Muslim rhetoric poses a challenge for everyone from Aung San Suu Kyi to Pope Francis.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters The Non-Religious States of America
New survey data indicates that religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. are diverse—and in many places, they make up a greater share of the population than any faith group.
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Jamal Saidi / Reuters How New Technology Is Changing Eid Celebrations
The robust Islamic app economy includes a program for ordering up sacrificial livestock.
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Allison Joyce / Reuters Why Are Some People Attracted to New Religions?
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Restoring Kabbalah to Mainstream Judaism
A new translation has made the Zohar—Jewish mysticism’s key work—accessible at last. Is that a good thing?
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Reuters Evangelicals Are Bitterly Split Over Advising Trump
Members of the president’s faith board did not step down after Charlottesville. They say they’re fulfilling their duty to advise America’s leader.
