To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

Sociologists of religion present a new edition of one of the most comprehensive empirical studies of religious trends across the world – Detlef ...

James Rollins is one of the most renowned authors in the world of crime and thriller fiction. Known for blending science, ...

A survey of more than 500 political scientists found that they believe the United States is headed towards authoritarian rule ...

It’s clear by looking at the map that most (though not all) of the AfD’s strongholds are in eastern Germany – the region which used to be the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Fascism and Nazism were ...

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany” by Heinrich Heine has been released in Iran. Translated by Saman Moradkhani, the book has been ...

Less than 20 percent said religion was important in Denmark, Switzerland, the U.K., Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, France, Belgium, and Germany. Several Eastern European countries were also ...

Take Germany in 1933: Hitler was elected when the Nazis finally came to power (after his previous violent putsch had failed years earlier). While the NPD, which was widely recognized as a Neo-Nazi ...

BERLIN (AP) — About 5.5 million of Germany’s 83.2 million residents are Muslim, and almost 3 million people in the country are Turkish or have Turkish roots.

Finally, in around 1600 B.C., the disc, perhaps no longer of either scientific or religious use, was buried, likely as an offering to the gods.

More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India ...