Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of ...

Religion has historically done four main “jobs.” First, it provides a framework for meaning-making, ... We are witnessing a tectonic shift in the landscape of American religious life.

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

A major new study on religious views in the United States finds – as Americans’ connection to organized religion continues to fade – there are deep divides over the appropriate role for ...

GREGORY SMITH: I would say there's two main things that jump out at me. One is that we know that religion does -- the place of religion in American life is changing.

My story maps onto America’s relationship to religion over the last 30 years. I was born in the mid-1990s, the moment that researchers say the country began a mass exodus from Christianity.

This civil religious inclusivity helps explain why we ban partisan political activity in U.S. military cemeteries — a ban Donald Trump was widely regarded as having violated in August, when he ...

Civil religion involves beliefs (but no formal creed), events that seem to reveal God’s purposes (most notably the American Revolution and the Civil War), prophets (especially Washington ...

Re “Religion’s Role, Revisited,” by Lauren Jackson (Sunday Styles, April 20): About a third of the way into this essay, I realized that the author was on the wrong track. Religion is not ...

A major new study on religious views in the United States finds – as Americans’ connection to organized religion continues to fade – there are deep divides over the appropriate role for ...