religious conversion

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.

Reflection on the importance of sex in the spiritual redemption narratives that riveted the American public.

Christian slavery and white supremacy.

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.

In a new book, a historian explores the American fascination with conversion, and its costs. 

The Southern Baptist Convention’s oldest, most direct ties to the Holy Land were established by a Palestinian Arab.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.

Chronicling the emergence of a unique blend of counterculture and Christianity.

Why did so many American Jewish women find Christian Science appealing?

To fully understand the deep roots of today’s white Christian nationalism, we need to go back at least to 1493.

In yoga’s early days in the United States, skeptics warned it would lead people (e.g., women) of good faith and standing into paganism and ill repute.

A Spanish-language pamphlet by Cotton Mather explodes the Black-versus-white binary that dominates most discussions of race in our time.

The school was funded by colonial taxation of tobacco grown by forced labor on colonized Indian lands.

The concept of "heathenism" may seem outmoded, but it defines race and religion in America.

While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.

Russia has become an ally in a global movement.

In the 17th century, Dutch proselytisers set out for Asia, Africa and the Americas. The legacy of their travels endures.

Early Americans coped with disease through narratives that found divine providence and mercy in suffering.

Omar ibn Said was captured in Senegal at 37 and enslaved in Charleston. A devout Muslim, he later converted to the Christian faith of his enslavers. Or did he?

Reflections on "A Love Supreme," artistic transformation, and the Black Arts Movement.

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.

Opened in 1760, the school may be the oldest still-standing building of its kind.

In Massachusetts, the inclusion of Native American names and places in local geography has obscured the violence of political and territorial dispossession.

It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled.

Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis.

How scientific thought informed colonization and religious conversion during the Age of Discovery.

Miles Harvey on the life and times of James J. Strang.

The murder that challenged Cotton Mather’s complex views about race, slavery, and Christianity.