Glance at the map above, Second Largest Religious Tradition in Each State 2010, and you will see that Buddhism (orange), Judaism (pink) and Islam (blue) are the runner-up religions across the country.

Despite less than half of Americans ranking religion as an important part of their daily life, America is still more devout ...

Significantly fewer Americans consider faith to be an important part of their lives than a decade ago. A recent Gallup study ...

This course will introduce students to the historical and contemporary study of religions in the United States through a framework of religious literacy and the investigation of primary source texts, ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden made history by withdrawing his candidacy for a second term. The reconfigured Democratic presidential ticket he endorsed, with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top, would be ...

(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 ...

In 1996, I took a year off from journalism to attend seminary in Atlanta. The plan was to cram theology, sociology of religion and church history into two semesters then return to a newspaper and ...