For our latest survey data about views of religion’s role in public life, read our 2025 report “Growing Share of U.S. Adults Say Religion Is Gaining Influence in American Life.” The vast majority of U ...

“Nones” are adults who describe themselves religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” This report uses the terms “nones” and “religiously unaffiliated” interchangeably. Negative ...

(RNS) — Religion in America might be best described in the words of rap artist LL Cool J: Don’t call it a comeback. At least not yet. Despite claims of a revival of religion in the United States, a ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

We’ve had so many post-mortems on the election that a wave of post-mortems on the post-mortems is now coming in. But if we zoom out—way out—and look at the larger picture, what we most urgently need ...

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 ...