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Hidden in the Cliffs of Mustang: The Ancient Himalayan Hermitage That Seems to Defy the Mountains High in the dramatic landscapes of Mustang, Nepal, where deep valleys cut through the rain-shadow of the Himalayas and ancient trade routes once connected Tibet with the Indian subcontinent, Buddhist monasteries, meditation sites, and cliffside religious structures preserve evidence of centuries of H…

Rowan Williams was the Church of England’s leading bishop for 10 years until 2012

Researchers interviewed almost 30 religious leaders across all six major religious faiths in the UK to find out how AI was affecting them.

Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions A pope from Chicago was elected. The White Sox were resurrectedAug. 7 – The New York Times * ‘A gift from heaven’: Pope Leo prepares for warm Peru […]

In his book, African Religions and Philosophy , Professor John S. Mbiti boldly affirms that in Africa people die only in body and not in spirit. In making such a generalized claim about Africans and their notions of death and the afterlife Mbiti appears to suggest the implication that in Africa people die only to continue living, everything being equal, as ancestors or members of the living-dead.…

In Isaiah, God repeatedly declares that He is the only God: "I am the LORD, and there is no other; besides me there is no God." — Isaiah 45:5 and: "I am God, and there is no other; I ...

Just days before more than a dozen scholars convened in Rome for a symposium on the Catholic social tradition (CST), the Vatican released Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. The timing gave fresh urgency to the conversations about to unfold over three days. The research symposium, titled “Modern Catholic Social Teaching …

David Pradhan & Chandan Panigrahi ABSTRACT This review article examines the judicial governance of religion in India and Indonesia. It posits that constitutional courts in both jurisdictions go beyond mere resolution of disputes over religious freedom. Through their decisions, judges constitutively define the legal meaning of religion, circumscribe the limits of constitutional protections, an…