In the retrospective of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the NGV, we can see an aesthetic corpus grappling with the ...

Deities often were trees, woods, or natural rock formations such as those that survived in Germanic religion into the first ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows faces backlash in Japan over historical inaccuracies and the depiction of a Shinto shrine’s ...

After breaking an annual tourism record in 2024, Japan looks to reach 60 million visitors by 2030. Officials tell Fox News ...

Americans’ overall perceptions of religion tilt positive, according to the survey, but appear to have cooled since 2014. Overall, 51% express mostly positive views of religious institutions ...

Organized religion was out of favor, “none of the above” was in, and houses of worship across the country were too busy dealing with aging congregations and rising building costs to find successful ...

In the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS), nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults who are currently married (74%) say they have the same religion as their spouse, a similar share as in the 2014 RLS (75 ...

Belief in a spiritual realm beyond the physical world remains very common among U.S. adults, the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. Roughly eight-in-ten Americans believe “there is ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Justin Hagenman hasn’t spent a day in the big leagues, but that didn’t stop the Mets from offering him a major league contract this offseason. It was a throwback signing for ...

Research Officer, Religion and Global Society, London School of Economics and Political Science “There is no time for imagination, religious or otherwise. We need to act now!” an irritated ...

In the past, Japanese funerals were deeply rooted in Buddhist and Shinto traditions. They were often held at ... Ancestral veneration was also important, reinforcing the belief that the deceased ...

Tree-like sculptures, chandeliers, and candelabra harken back to the Japanese Shinto religion, in which trees are sacred objects of worship, while her sensitivity to the subject matter imbues her ...