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.

On Monday’s program, Paul Solman will explore the religious diversity of the U.S. in a conversation with Robert Putnam, the co-author of a new book on religion in America. Support PBS News Hour ...

The book draws data from a variety of surveys that demonstrate the importance of religion in the lives of many people. No less than 83% of the population belongs to some religion, with 40% ...

The second major report on the U.S. religious landscape finds that most Americans do not believe their religion is the only way to salvation. This openness to other religious viewpoints is in line ...

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.

Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. Catholic bishop of Las Vegas gets new ...

Yet there are major differences — based on gender, race, religious affiliation and other factors — in attitudes concerning the personal importance of religion. And these attitudes carry over into ...

The more accurate story of America is one of “civil religion,” Gorski writes, ... Green: In your book, you point to evangelical Christians as the main purveyors of religious nationalism.

For instance, in October, 1949, President Harry Truman gave a national address across all four major networks to kick off a campaign called Religion in American Life.

Three Religious Studies double-majors presented their interdisciplinary research at the 2023 Mount ... “Religion in America: ... on a panel entitled “Crafting Religious Identities through Comedy, ...

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.