To understand what religion looks like in 21st-century America, researchers may need to ask different questions.

Christianity leads in 123 of 201 countries and Islam in 54, but only two countries changed their largest group in a decade, ...

For most of human history, religion served as far more than a personal belief system. It shaped laws, influenced governments, guided moral codes, explained natural phenomena, and provided a framework ...

Controversies regarding religion in the classroom in the United States are as old as the public school system itself. Most recently, a Louisiana law mandates that posters of the Ten Commandments be ...

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. However, for people who do still attend religious services, they say they're optimistic about the future of their house of ...

U.S. adults with low levels of religious engagement are much more likely than highly religious Americans to say the government should provide more assistance to people in need (58% vs. 35%). About one ...

Are you a spiritual person or a religious person? People are inclined to think that these two lifestyles are the same, and on the surface they are. What they both have in common is connecting to ...

Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried ...