To understand what religion looks like in 21st-century America, researchers may need to ask different questions.

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that atheists in some of the world's most secular countries show an intuitive preference for religious belief over ...

Experiments conducted by UC Merced researchers find that people who perform good deeds are far more likely to be thought of as religious believers than atheists. Moreover, the psychological bias ...

Some are. But many are not. Around a fifth of “nones” express consistently negative views of religion. They say it does more harm than good in society, encourages superstition and causes division.

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. However, for people who do still attend religious services, they say they're optimistic about the future of their house of ...

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 ...

Most of the world’s population believes in God, or gods, but alongside them there are also hundreds of millions of nonbelievers. What makes one a believer or not?more Religious faith is likely a ...

In the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS), nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults who are currently married (74%) say they have the same religion as their spouse, a similar share as in the 2014 RLS (75 ...

The process of secularisation, characterised by, among other things, a reduction in the role faith plays in people’s everyday lives and a diminution of the authority of religious institutions, ...