Last week, my colleague Evan Goldstein and I talked with four longstanding Chronicle Review contributors — Randall Kennedy, Amna Khalid, Holden Thorp, and Keith Whittington — about what Trump’s first ...

In previous articles, I have looked at various psychological aspects of sexually masochistic behavior. However, some masochistic behaviors have religious (rather than sexual) motivations. Many ...

MANILA (Reuters) – Barefoot and with their backs bloodied by repeated flogging, Catholic devotees in the Philippines defied a ban on gatherings on Good Friday to perform a ritual of self-flagellation ...

Even as the world begins to acknowledge India’s rise as an economic, digital, and diplomatic power, sections of its own political class seem gripped by an impulse to self-flagellate — a compulsive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shiite Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century martyrdom of a ...