Serge Schmemann reports on the Russian Orthodox Church's search for a post-Soviet identity in National Geographic Magazine.
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Women and children first
In The American Prospect, Sarah Posner reviews two new books that explore sexual inequality and religious fundamentalism---Michelle Goldberg's The Means of Reproduction:…
Mormonism and the media
Michael Paulson offers some conclusions from "Far from Zion: Meeting Mormonism on the Religion Beat," a talk he recently gave at…
The multiverse problem
Nathan Schneider's article on multiverse theory and the culture wars is featured in "Idea of the Day," a New York…
Faith isn’t under fire
Jon Meacham responds to critics of his recent Newsweek feature on the decline of Christian America.
An alternative Hindu history
Tunku Varadarajan reviews Wendy Doniger's new book, The Hindus: An Alternative History.
The end of Christian America
Jon Meacham examines the American Religious Identification Survey finding that the percentage of self-identified Christians has dropped ten points since 1990.
God is back?
Michiko Kakutani finds God is Back, a new book by John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of the Economist, and Adrian Wooldridge, that magazine’s…
Religious education in Germany
The debate over whether Berlin schools should offer classes on religion as an alternative to ethics courses is "only partly…
Islam’s quiet revolution
Robin Wright reports on a new generation of Muslim activism.