People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of "religious churning" is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research ...

Typically, East Asia is considered to encompass China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. In geopolitical terms, Vietnam is often categorized as part of Southeast ...

Is it any wonder the country is revisiting faith? Credit...Iris Legendre Supported by By Lauren Jackson On Sundays, I used to stand in front of my Mormon congregation and declare that it all was true.

(RNS) — A new study found that about a third of Americans say religion’s influence in society is growing — up more than 10 percentage points from a year earlier. (RNS) — After years of decline, a ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

A man burns joss sticks in a cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival, or Grave Sweeping Day, in Hong Kong. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images) How we did this For this report, we surveyed 10,390 ...

As concerns mount about America’s “loneliness epidemic,” some religious leaders have sought to market themselves as a potential cure. An academic and a rabbi co-wrote an op-ed in The Boston Globe last ...

Alexis Draut, 28, was raised Christian in Kentucky. Her parents took her and her sister to nondenominational megachurches that adhered to a lot of Baptist and Pentecostal ideals, she said. As a kid, ...

After years of decline, a growing number of Americans believe religion is on its way back, a new study from Pew Research Center suggests. The report, published Monday, found that about a third of ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

There has been a recent, but sharp, uptick in the proportion of U.S. adults who say that religion is gaining influence in American life, according to new insight from Pew Research Center. This shift ...