The Pew Research Center poll found deep partisan gaps around questions on how much the U.S. government should embrace ...

A growing share of U.S. adults say religion is gaining influence, but most still want churches to stay out of politics, 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 ...

This report describes the world’s religious makeup in 2020 and how it changed from 2010. We focus on seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Secularism is on the rise. Between 2012 and 2014 alone, some 7.5 million Americans lost their religious faith. And a great many of them are parents — or will be someday. So how do we, as ...

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.