A majority of adults still identify with their childhood religion, but 35% don’t. Read about when and why Americans may ...

A major new study from Pew Research Center offers an in-depth look at the American religious landscape and how it’s changed over time. Researchers determined that the share of U.S. adults who ...

After decades of steady decline, new research indicates that the number of Americans identifying as religious may have stabilized, signaling a possible plateau in the nation’s ongoing religious ...

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

Nnachi Azuewah didn’t intend to stay in the United States. A brother-in-law to the first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nnachi always planned to finish college and return to his hometown.

Americans have stopped leaving Christianity. And the country is overwhelmingly spiritual, a new report found. By Lauren Jackson I have spent the last year reporting on belief. As religion in America ...

(RNS) — When French intellectual Alexis de Tocqueville toured the United States in the early 19th century, he was struck by how religious Americans were. He linked that religiosity with the success of ...

The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First ...

Forty years ago today, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself. In her elegiac Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe argues that “the answer to these obscene questions” raised by the unethical, ...

There has been a recent, but sharp, uptick in the proportion of U.S. adults who say that religion is gaining influence in American life, according to new insight from Pew Research Center. This shift ...

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

When the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature convene for their joint meeting November 22–25 in Boston, thousands of attendees are expected to flock to a vast book expo.