Mississippi is the most "overall religious" state, according to Pew's map, with 50 percent of adults who are "highly religious," followed by South Carolina with 46 percent of "highly religious" adults ...

The share of Americans who identify as Christian continues to fall across the U.S, with the exception of two states, a Newsweek map shows. However, the decline appears to be leveling out, as younger ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

State Rep. James Talarico believes both his Democratic politics and Christian faith have led him to leave Texas in opposition to Republican gerrymandering. The 36-year-old Austin-based seminarian ...

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 ...

Across the countries surveyed, many adults say there definitely or probably is life after death. People are generally less likely to say that the spirits of ancestors can help or hurt them. And a ...

Under the U.S. Constitution, public schools cannot promote or advance any particular religion, and they must respect the individual religious beliefs of students and staff. What that looks like in ...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has introduced a bill to prohibit the application of Sharia Law in the United States. Senator ...