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From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people. Christians grew by 122 ...
If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...
I’d excuse skeptics for imagining that all clergy would salivate at the opportunity to expand "freedom of the pulpit," ...
The Demise of Traditional Faith in America,' Christian Smith argues that traditional institutional religion has lost its grasp on America—at least among Americans under the age of 50.
The First Amendment protects all our religious freedoms, hardly limited to the three great Abrahamic religions, but it ...
The sharpest growth was recorded in North America, where the Muslim population rose by 52%, reaching 5.9 million in 2020. Sub-Saharan Africa followed with a 34% growth, taking its Muslim ...
The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board As Christianity declines in the West, the faith is flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa, ...
Nigeria, home to one of Africa’s fastest-growing Christian populations, has also become one of the deadliest places in the ...
Rather than viewing liberty and equality as distinct or even competing constitutional principles, Yoshino proposed that they ...
Your church probably is not growing, and that’s OK,” Ryan Burge, a leading analyst of politics and religion, told a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship gathering June 24 in St. Louis. But that doesn’t ...
A new Pew Research Center report shows that although Christianity continues to be the world s largest religious group, its share of the rising global population has fallen over the last decade, ...
As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...