Nation Topics - Religion | The Nation

Two authors posit very different views on the problem of religious conflict in a supposedly secular age.

The so-called "new atheists" may be as extreme as Christian fundamentalists, if not more.

Christian-right activists look at falling birthrates among whites and rising Muslim immigration in Europe and warn of a looming "demographic winter."

Immigrants facing deportation find shelter with the religious New Sanctuary Movement.

Mohandas K. Gandhi, killed sixty years ago, was a moment in the conscience of mankind. But the flame of hope his life inspired shapes our lives still.

With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers from deists to Christian fundamentalists.

Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.

The main threat to democracy isn't “Islamofacism” but plain old fascism, with mostly white Europeans terrorizing minorities in the name of racial, cultural or religious superiority.

A paradox of American Jewish political behavior: they think like liberals, but they let belligerent right-wingers who demonize and distort their values speak for them.

It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.