(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

Australia has not yet worked out how Islamic authority fits into its public institutions. Until it does, debates about Islam will continue to oscillate between denial and suspicion, neither of which ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

The question is not whether Islam belongs in Australia. It’s how religious authority is situated in a society that values ...

For many in the American Hindu community, the comment read less like an intimate marital insight and more like a dismissal of Usha’s faith. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) responded on social ...