Find out how adults who were raised as “nones” experienced religion as kids, and why they say they do – or don’t – affiliate ...

This latest study is important because it’s the first time we’ve asked people why they identify with their current religion,’ a senior researcher says ...

Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study was designed to paint a statistical portrait of religion in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. How religious is your state? Select a ...

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 ...

In a new survey released by the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of respondents said religion’s role in public life is shrinking in America. That’s the highest proportion in two decades of asking the ...

Theologists, scientists and thought leaders have attempted for centuries to understand the impact that religion can have on human beings; both mentally and physically. And it is commonly accepted ...

Are American young people less religious than they used to be -- or not? Most studies you might have heard about -- like those from the Pew Center -- can't really answer that question, since they are ...

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 ...

A poll released by the Pew Research Center found that most Catholics believe religion has a positive influence on life in the United States, and an increasing number of Catholics believe religious ...

As one who writes and teaches a lot about secularism and humanism, lectures a lot about atheism and agnosticism, and directs a secular studies program, there are a few common questions/comments that ...

There is a spectrum of views about how religion and ethics are related—from the view that religion is the absolute bedrock of ethics to one that holds that ethics is based on humanistic assumptions ...

This story is adapted from How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, by David DeSteno. Even though I was raised Catholic, for most of my adult life, I didn’t pay religion much heed.