A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better ...

A major new study on religious views in the United States finds – as Americans’ connection to organized religion continues to fade – there are deep divides over the appropriate role for religion in ...

About 100 million people in the U.S. say they have no religious faith, but a new survey paints a more complicated picture.

“Covenantal thinking created an American national identity,” said Smith. He emphasized that the covenant ties together a ...

Over the last 50 years, the left has directed two opposing criticisms at Christian conservatives. In the late 1970s and 1980s ...

A Pew Research report observed that while America's population of Christians has declined since 2007, the freefall appears to have stopped across multiple denominations.

But this era of religion and politics in America is over, and Trump ended it. He has confounded the question of “friendliness ...

Paul Solman talks with author Robert Putnam about his new book "American Grace," which delves into the role of religion in the United States.

Across religious groups, majorities see America’s openness to others as essential to national identity. But views on rising ...

Some years ago you wrote a book called “Bad Religion.” And the basic argument there, if I may be so bold as to summarize the work in front of the author, is that Christianity in America was ...

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

University of Chicago professor Martin Marty was convinced that totalitarianism could be avoided if we worked to build pluralism.