Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” If ...

As Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell demonstrated in their 2010 book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, most Americans no longer orient their lives around houses of worship.

According to Pew, one-fifth of American adults have no religious affiliation, a trend that has for years been on the rise. (A more recent Gallup poll shows the uptick in religious nones slowed a ...

And it is possible, even despite this growth, that the Religious Landscape Study may underestimate the size of these groups. ... An additional 1.5% identify with other faiths, including Unitarians, ...

The First Amendment protects all our religious freedoms, hardly limited to the three great Abrahamic religions, but it ...

By contrast, Judaism is preeminently a religion of ascribed identity — for the past 2,000 years determined by matrilineal descent. God may have chosen the Jews, but “Jews by choice” is a ...

Glance at the map above, Second Largest Religious Tradition in Each State 2010, and you will see that Buddhism (orange), Judaism (pink) and Islam (blue) are the runner-up religions across the country.

Since 1999, the number of overdose deaths in America involving prescription opioids — drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone — has quadrupled.In 2015, opioids killed more than 33,000 ...

Glance at the map above, Second Largest Religious Tradition in Each State 2010, and you will see that Buddhism (orange), Judaism (pink) and Islam (blue) are the runner-up religions across the ...

A glance at the spring issue of The Public Interest: Religion in AmericaReligion is one key to understanding America, say the editors, in an introduction to the issue. “The American scene cannot ...

This is just one map of one small town, but it shows a microcosm of religion in the USA. Carbondale, Illinois is a college town of about 25,000 people with about 70 religious communities, almost ...

Like it or not, the regime of choice is here to stay, posing distinct challenges to all American religious communities. How well they adapt will determine the future of religion in America.