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

One of the most contentious issues in American religion is the question of sexuality and LGBT rights. It divides denominations. It causes churches to split. For many, the issue is a litmus test ...

A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.

F OR DECADES America’s fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they were atheists, agnostics or believed in “nothing in particular”. By 2019 ...

In short, in America, minority religions have tended to move to the mean over time and become, in important ways, more or less like everyone else. (There are exceptions, ...

America's Christian majority is facing steep declines. Christianity remains the majority religion in the United States, as it has been since the country's founding, but it's on the decline.

America Is Losing Religious Faith. Aug. 23, 2023. Credit... Granger Wootz/Tetra images, via Getty Images. ... Yet evidence is growing that Americans are becoming significantly less religious.

As America becomes an increasingly secular country, religion will become an increasingly urban affair. It's in cities that greater absolute numbers of religious people can compensate for declining ...

Faith leaders: The religion of America’s empire forsakes the whole for the sake of the few Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

WHAT IS a shepherd without a flock? Many of America’s pastors may soon have to answer. In 2014, 3,700 Protestant churches closed, by 2019 that figure was 4,500, according to Lifeway Research, a ...

My generation, millennials, has been blamed for ruining so much: cloth napkins, traditional marriage, American cheese. But in the long run, we might be credited with destroying American religion ...

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 ...