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The word “notwithstanding” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the ongoing public debate over whether West Virginia’s religious freedom act applies to school vaccination laws. Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The law books record it as ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

Vasant Bhatt, a 20-year-old political science major at the University of Houston, enrolled in a course called the Lived Hindu Religion expecting "nuanced discussion" and "space for the lived faith ...

(The Conversation) — The phrase ‘separation of church and state’ dates back to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist congregation. One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Texas law ...

Supporters of both major U.S. political parties tend to claim their presidential candidate is the "real" Christian or the "better" Christian or just the "true" Christian. For a majority of white ...