Are politics replacing religion in American life? And what is gained and lost as our country stops going to churches, synagogues and mosques? May 9, 2024 More than 1 year ago ...

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the ...

In some corners of America, the Bible remains a source of authority and certainty, solace and comfort. At the same time, many who revere the Bible seem increasingly not to really know what’s in it.

Perry (@profsamperry) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. He is among the nation’s leading experts on conservative Christianity in American politics, race, sexuality, and ...

America is unique in that its political institutions preceded its development of national identity. In his book Religion in America, Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives of American ...

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 ...

Many Americans have seen the transformation of politics into a quasi-religious force, and they don’t like it. It polarizes society, as political allegiance becomes not just a matter of opinion ...

Home; Religion; Talking Point What the shifting religious landscape means for American politics. Religious observance is on the decline in the U.S. What does that mean for future elections?

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.

Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, says that this data reflects another trend in American religious life. "Americans," she says, "are becoming increasingly likely to ...

2019–2020: Deep Stories: Narrative’s Role in American Religion and Politics. In her recent book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Arlie Russell Hochschild writes, “A deep story is a feels-as-if story—it’s ...

At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and across ...