the supernatural

Updated 8/16/22: The authors’ response to a correction request follows the article. - eds Four weeks after the January 6th insurrection , two leaders of the revivalist New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)…

This week, Jews in Israel and around the world will commemorate Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Remembrance Day that marks a somber time for remembrance and reflection. On Thursday, thousands of Israeli and…

Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK publisher, didn’t receive a tremendous amount of attention in the United States —one…

NPR recently published an article from an episode of its Life Kit podcast titled “ Tarot can’t predict the future, but it can help you make that big decision,” presenting and endorsing the viewpoint…

While researching ghost hunters in the 21st century US during the course of earning my PhD, I was sometimes asked what ghost-hunting had to do with religious studies. In fact, Americans’ interactions…

It’s spooky season again, the time of year when we’re drawn to horror ; when The Great Pumpkin arrives to teach us how to live with the blockheads ; when the pagan outrage machine is fired up; and…

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, a Christianity Today podcast hosted by Mike Cosper, begins with the query—”Who Killed Mars Hill?” This first episode ends by answering its own question, “we all did it…

Daniel Silliman’s new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith, is an engaging history of evangelical fiction, focused on the infrastructure of publishers…

Still looking for a fun and exciting summer activity? Have you thought about ghost hunting? I earned my PhD studying ghost hunters in the contemporary United States. Ghost hunters are people, often…

Recently, Atlantic writer Derek Thompson tweeted an image of two graphs of religious survey data. The first showed the number of people who say they “believe in God without a doubt,” broken down by…