A video spreading across X purports to show Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking openly transgender official to serve in the US ...

Religion is a hot, sometimes tensely debated, topic. Few spiritual traditions face as much stigma as paganism. Paganism is ...

Celebrated usually from 31 October to 1 November, the religious rituals of Samhain (pronounced "sow-win", meaning summer's end), focused on fire, as winter approached. Anthropologist and pagan Lyn ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – traditions. With its goblins, goosebumps and rituals – from bobbing ...

Pagan and Christian elements have been fused in Halloween for centuries. In the 1800s, Irish immigrants brought their Halloween traditions to the Americas and mass media have spread elements of ...

Paganism is now the fourth largest religion in Scotland, according to the most recent Scottish census. There are 19,113 Pagans recorded in the census, more than for the numbers worshiping Judaism ...

The group is characterized as a white supremacist cult that combines those beliefs with magical elements of neo-paganism. Now they claim that the evidence of Crime Scene Investigator Ryan Olehy ...

In the United States there are 1.5 million pagans, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, a significant increase compared with 134,000 in 2001. The draw of the Roman religion is clear for ...

But for members of the minority religion of Wicca and witchcraft, part of contemporary paganism, Halloween has never been primarily a children’s holiday. As a sociologist doing research on ...