"Their unique practices make the Amish one of North America's most interesting and colorful religious subcultures." Unlike most people who live in the western world, Amish think less of themselves ...

From conclaves to reincarnation, religious traditions around the world follow different rules when selecting new spiritual leaders. Here’s how major religions make their choices.

The conservative justices are poised to side with religious parents who want to opt their children out of lessons involving LGBT-themed books.

The Supreme Court appears ready to approve the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, dealing a monumental blow to the separation of church and state by effectively writing the ...

America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were ...

Faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham say some administrators are restricting efforts to research the health of ...

Religious leadership succession varies widely ... other traditions—from Tibetan Buddhism to the Amish—rely on drastically different processes, often rooted in sacred texts, cultural customs ...

Pietists, Mennonites, Amish, and other Protestants that went ... in his 1775 “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies,” religion had a direct impact: “The people are Protestants; and ...

Osgood’s latest book, “Godstruck,” chronicles the conversion stories of seven millennial women — among them, a Quaker, an evangelical, a Latter-day Saint, a Muslim, an Amish woman ... their ...

In the prior case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Amish parents have the right to excuse their ... district’s actions in the Maryland case significantly burden the religious practice of the parents ...