In every corner of Ghana from bustling cities to the quietest hamlets the voice of religion resounds. It is in the mosque at ...

Claire Hoffman's superb biography traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a star preacher whose legacy lives on in L.A.

The Sorensen scandal seems, on the surface, to be a uniquely contemporary event—involving social media, child-trafficking ...

neo-Pentecostal churches such as Universal preach a “prosperity theology” that material wealth isn’t a sin, but evidence of God’s grace. At Solomon’s Temple, suited men line up at the ...

Once a Catholic stronghold, Latin America’s largest democracy is now on track to become majority evangelical, with rising ...

“Sister Aimee,” as she was known to her adoring followers, was an early Pentecostal preacher ... the Angelus Temple was one of the largest churches in the world. The Temple buzzed with ...

Scholars of religion have marveled at the city’s ability to create myriad new belief systems — from the Pentecostal revivals on Azusa Street in the early 1900s, to the Church of Scientology in ...

In some ways, McPherson’s whole life seemed to me like the tale of a proto-influencer: As a multihyphenate (mega-church ... Temple, the megachurch she founded, she gave sermons, administered ...

"We've got people who didn't grow up in church at all. We've got people who grew up Baptist and Catholic and Lutheran and Methodist and Assembly of God and Pentecostal." There are also people from ...