Max Weber is widely known as the author of ideal types of power. However, he also developed ideal types of religious attitudes. The article presents his original three ideal types and shows how they ...

There’s something very strange about religion. There have been recent appalling acts of terrorism, allegedly carried out in the name of religion. These attacks emphasise the recent findings of the ...

Religion consumes up to a tenth of economic productivity in some societies (1). So it must produce corresponding benefits. What are they? By religion, I mean any supernatural belief system that is ...

Religion is a sacred, powerful tool. Many people lean on their spiritual beliefs and faith to get through hard times. There are many different types of religions out there: Islam, Judaism, and ...

Earlier this week, I charted the median age and education of American religious groups. Catholics represented the largest church in that graph. While putting Catholics in one group is accurate, it ...

Q: Being a religious spiritualist and studying many types of religions, how does one know what is real and what is not? I grew up Lutheran and heard how we were the religion, when we had a Catholic ...

Moral attitudes justifying economic inequality are often embedded within conservative religion and politics in the United States, even as traditional Christian values assert the need for compassion ...