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Lamorna Ash’s “Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever” reports on the young faithful in Britain, while Ross Douthat’s “Believe” has ...
Most people who switch religions do not join another tradition; they leave religion altogether. Christians and Buddhists are ...
A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.
American Atheists has withdrawn as host of the 2026 World Humanist Congress, citing "new and yet unfolding risks posed by the ...
A recent study asks whether altering consciousness with psychoactive substances can have religious value. Americans take ...
From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people. Christians grew by 122 ...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parents have a right to withdraw their children from public school classes when ...
Ten Modern Mystics and Their Extraordinary Lives” is an impressive work of participatory journalism. Pintak, “an avid student of the perennial truths at the core of the world’s religions,” not only ...
Sociologists of religion present a new edition of one of the most comprehensive empirical studies of religious trends across the world – Detlef ...
According to state immunization data, vaccination rates among kindergartners in Massachusetts have been falling — from 95.9% ...
The world’s Jewish population, the smallest religious group analyzed in the report, grew by 6% between 2010 and 2020, from about 14 million to 15 million people.
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...