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Across religious traditions, the pattern is clear,” write three researchers in an op-ed. “In nearly every case — and across two distinct datasets — greater religious attendance is associated with ...

Many people live with shame and self-doubt tied to religious messages without realizing it. How to recognize religious harm ...

In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island, in Washington State, was flipping through The Christian Century, a progressive Protestant magazine, when ...

(RNS) — Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults. Those who had negative experiences are most likely to change faiths or give up on ...

Did you ever want to trip for the benefit of science? That’s what a lucky group of religious clerics got to do, and researchers are now in the process of evaluating the results. Scientists at Johns ...

Religious belief is one of the oldest and most complex aspects of human culture, shaping civilizations, laws, and personal identities. But for those who stand outside the realm of faith, certain ...

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

It’s a long word, a neologism, that seeks to capture a cultural transformation that is both historically specific and socially profound, a shift in mentalities and practices cutting to the core of ...

Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 (IMBD) In The Varieties of Religious Experience, his landmark book on the psychology of religion, William James delineated the traits that ...

In RELS 0080: Religion and Sports, Religious Studies professor Megan Robb teaches students to grapple with the question of if sports can really be a religion — a question that is especially relevant ...