(RNS) — In his new book, ‘Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor,’ Michael Battle delves into the ways Tutu’s religious formation shaped a vision that helped topple apartheid ...

In Russia, mysticism is resurgent as more people, including soldiers in eastern Ukraine, turn to supernatural practices due to conflict and economic issues. Self-described witch Natalia Malinovskaya ...

Brady Corbet says his next film explores American mysticism and the occult in America, while Selena Gomez is now reportedly ...

Each of the Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — has a mystical path. Jews call their tradition Kabbalah. Muslims have Sufism. And Christians have, well, the mystics. (Though until ...

“A life of prayer is an absolutely universal human vocation,” said Cardinal Daniélou, which makes it a “political problem” as well. A child prays during Mass at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in ...

MYSTICISM — that is, the belief in supernatural connections in the physical and psychical worlds — has always been an interesting object of observation for the psychologist. When the human mind ...

Amid the war in Ukraine, some corners of Russia’s media landscape are taking an unexpected turn.

Laurie Wevers, left, 35, a mental health therapist and spiritual director from San Diego, and Tracy Bindel, 30, a law student and anti-racism activist from Boston, stand with a cardboard cutout of ...

There is no denying that the internet has laid bare the degree of ignorance and superstition increasingly holding sway in American life. From chemtrail theories to flat earth theories to the vogue for ...

Nan Goodman doesn’t spend much time wondering what Madonna, Mick Jagger or Ashton Kutcher may have gotten from dabbling in the “Kabbalah trend” of the early 2000s. What concerns Goodman are what ...

Mysticism is a concept that famously, perhaps even by definition, refuses to be pinned down. In 1911, the English writer Evelyn Underhill called it “a certain spiritual and intangible quest: the ...