(RNS) — Ancestral veneration, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, Cuban Santería and Ifá have gained attention among Black adults, who see it as an occasion to reconnect with their heritage and ...

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While candles, images of saints, and other idols are common in households in Puerto Rico, the meanings owners ascribe to them can be unexpected. Laura Sofía Pérez, still from "How to love a place so ...

Our world is increasingly diverse in terms of understandings, ideas and beliefs. In what can be called a global repositioning, countries once colonized by Western powers have begun to chart their own ...

When people today aver that they are "spiritual" but not "religious," they are invoking a distinction that is at once venerable and very modern. People of faith have long valued spirituality, which ...

Pop-spiritualities that promise wonders are not new. The genre was made popular by the legendary Madame Blavatsky (depicted here), who gathered a remarkable following with her spiritualist claims in ...

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It is a mild Kenyan day in January of 2014. With temperatures in the 70s. I smile with some Lutheran guilt because I know I am missing the worst of Minnesota’s frosty brunt of the so-called “polar ...

Marilú Rojas Salazar has a PhD in systematic theology from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She is a member of the ATE (Association of Spanish Theologians) and of the ESWTR (European ...

A yoga teacher has been evicted from conducting classes at a church hall in Bristol because of the practice's links to "alternative spiritualities". Naomi Hayama, 39, had been conducting yoga classes ...

Pop-spiritualities that promise wonders are not new. The genre was made popular by the legendary Madame Blavatsky (depicted here), who gathered a remarkable following with her spiritualist claims in ...