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 ...

More than 20% of adults have departed from the religious groups in which they were raised, according to a Pew Research Center study spanning 36 countries. The trend, called “religious switching,” has ...

First Congregational Church on East Broad Street in downtown Columbus. How religious is Ohio? And how does the state compare to the rest of the county? This is a question not answered by the U.S.

Many questions in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) previously were asked in the 2007 and 2014 landscape studies. Measuring change over time on these questions is one key goal of the new RLS ...

Fewer than half of Americans (44%) say they pray each day. This is a substantial decline from the first Religious Landscape Study (RLS) conducted in 2007, when 58% said they prayed at least once a day ...

From a social sciences perspective, people with radical, extremist, or fundamentalist attitudes are similar in some respects: ...

The Pew study finds the decline of Christianity in the United States has slowed and may have leveled off. The Pew Research Center's third Religious Landscape Study finds 62% of U.S. adults describe ...

In the digital age, technology continues to transform various aspects of life, including spiritual and religious practices. One of the most groundbreaking developments in this realm is the ...

A majority of counties across the U.S. are seeing a steady rise in vaccine exemptions for religious or personal beliefs among ...

This story was originally published on mynorthwest.com. Washington qualified as one of the least religious and spiritual states in the country, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

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 ...