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Pakistan’s first textiles museum, which opened in Karachi in December, has set out to preserve the material remnants of that ...
The real reason many Black Christians reject the movie ‘Sinners’ is that they’ve adopted the beliefs of their oppressors, not ...
While millions are leaving the organized Christian faiths, they’re not abandoning spirituality. Instead, they’re seeking ...
Spanning film, literature, and jazz, this sweeping retrospective brings together 100 of Jonathan Rosenbaum’s sharpest essays ...
Santa Muerte, the skeletal figure dressed in robes and wielding a scythe, is one of the fastest-growing religious movements ... Rooted in both indigenous Mexican traditions and Catholicism ...
A writer drove from Chicago to L.A. to see what it truly means to belong to a place.
Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...
In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...
which “has localized and indigenous practices that still make it in and get combined with Catholicism.” Instead of replacing them, those folk religions often exist as an undercurrent ...
President Donald Trump’s effort to do as much as possible as quickly as possible to remake the federal government would gut agencies that have existed for decades or longer. His larger plans would ...
Not all the nodding men are conscience-keepers. Some of them represent the life of an elder, the philosophy of old age, ...