As a psychologist, I am a scientist of human behavior. I am accountable to what can be understood scientifically through empiricism. And yet empiricism is not the only method we use to explore reality ...

Are you looking to connect to something greater than yourself, but aren't sure how? In this episode, a spiritual psychiatrist and a professor of theology share ways to personalize your path, whether ...

As we hike through the North Cascades, David and I return to an old argument about spirituality. He maintains that spirituality means, by definition, something dealing with God, religion, or the ...

The expectation that modernity would lead to the decline of religion has proven to be a myth. For decades, sociologists like Peter Berger predicted that the advance of science and modernization would ...

In his work, the photographer Abelardo Morell captures how flashes of transcendence feel. By Lauren Jackson The year I began my long exit from Mormonism, I went to the Getty. It’s a spaceship of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Impact Of Faith, Religion, And Spirituality On Mental Health Faith, religion, and spirituality are different constructs that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maintaining your spiritual hygiene in today's frenetic, divided world can be just as important as physical or mental health.

Sociologist Christian Smith studies American religion, but his research doesn’t take him to many churches these days. Instead, he’s been to a vampire ball in Chicago and a paranormal convention in ...