Five hundred years ago, an unknown monk named Martin Luther marched up to the church in Wittenberg, a small town in what is now Germany, and nailed a list of criticisms of the Catholic church to its ...

Review of Religious Research, Vol. 54, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 445-468 (24 pages) Using data on 1,214 families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study explored why and under ...

Historical analysis, including Weber's thesis, offers rich clues to the complexity and variety of relations existing between Protestant religious institutions and economic institutions. Several of the ...

IT IS the Day of the Dead in Malinalco, a small Mexican town. In its grand 16th century church a sprinkling of worshippers gathers to hear Mass. The cemetery across the main road is thronged with ...

INSTITUTIONS die hard. Especially religious institutions. They take a long time about it. Generations and centuries. The nostalgia of religious habits. The endowments and vested interests. Paganism ...

Eight-in-ten adults who were raised Protestant are still Protestant, and about two-thirds of this group (or 52% of all those raised Protestant) are still members of the same family of denominations (e ...

Once every two years, the growing spirit of unity in U.S. Protestantism becomes a visible thing. The occasion: the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Here ...

A devout little grey-haired Christian is Ralph Adams Cram, 72, famed medievalist architect who designed such soaring fanes as Princeton University Chapel and the East Liberty Presbyterian Church ...

A peek into the history to understand the religious currents in India that tried to reshape the spiritual landscape of the subcontinent In the first part of this essay last Sunday, we discussed the ...

Former President George W. Bush again criticized what he sees as a Republican Party that is not inclusive enough, arguing that if it stands for “White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, then it’s not going to ...

Former President George W. Bush expressed optimism that the Republican Party will "govern again." He said it depends on whether the GOP can distance itself from "white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism." ...

CAN religion make people wealthier? In 1905 Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that it had happened in Europe. Protestants did not invent capitalism in the 16th century, he suggested. But, by ...