I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

(RNS) — From Russia and Hungary to Turkey and India to the U.S. of A., actual and wannabe authoritarians make a practice of imbuing their movements with religious significance, in a way that ...

After decades of steady decline, new research indicates that the number of Americans identifying as religious may have stabilized, signaling a possible plateau in the nation’s ongoing religious ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

Americans are significantly less religious now than 18 years ago, according to the latest American Religious Identification Survey, shedding light on significant shifts in the religious make-up of the ...

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After years of decline, a growing number of Americans believe religion is on its way back, a new study from Pew Research Center suggests. The report, published Monday, found that about a third of ...

The number of American adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all remained steady, a new Pew Research Center report finds. Surveys conducted since 2020 ...

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 ...

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old. For more than half a century, Marty was the go-to interview for journalists ...