Give them that old-time religion — ancient religion — and then watch an exploding population of modern pagans give it contemporary twists. Their numbers roughly double about every 18 months in the ...

Parents whose children attend several Encinitas elementary schools are so fed up with the yoga classes there that they have filed a lawsuit against the district. The yoga classes began "at about half ...

The name Kazakhstan is composed of two words, “kazakh” and “stan,” where “stan” means “land” and “kazakh” supposedly means “free,” though the word is so old its origin is not clear. For a ...

A surprising genealogy of neopaganism. Type “burning times” into any major Internet search engine and you will be engulfed by a host of websites all telling essentially the same tale about the ...

Neopaganism is the fastest-growing religious identification in the US, growing more rapidly than any other denomination in the last decade of the 20th century. Most neopagan populations are in ...

Earlier this year, while doing research for another article, I found the term "witches Christmas" for Halloween. It first appeared on a calendar for the S.I.R. center in October 1967 and was taken as ...

A few classics from Christianity Today opining about Halloween and several profiles of groups who see the holiday as an opportunity for ministry. D. Bruce Lockerbie comes out against Halloween. “Why ...