The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This 1854 map of world religion ...

This is just one map of one small town, but it shows a microcosm of religion in the USA. Carbondale, Illinois is a college town of about 25,000 people with about 70 religious communities, almost all ...

Click on “Projecting the World’s Faith” below to begin a slideshow of each graphic in full size. Religion News Service graphics by Tiffany McCallen (RNS) Muslims will overtake Christians by the end of ...

When you create a marker on Google Maps, you could be revealing the most popular religious and sexual habits in your local region. At least, that’s what a group of social geographers demonstrated with ...

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had ...

Popular Religious Art: Loyalties Etched in Stone Another way in which material remains can increase our understanding of the world in which the early Christian message was spread is by giving voice to ...

Muslims will overtake Christians by the end of this century. India, now mostly Hindu, will become the world's largest Muslim country. The numbers of people with no religious identity will soar in the ...

Muslims will overtake Christians by the end of this century. India, now mostly Hindu, will become the world’s largest Muslim country. The numbers of people with no religious identity will soar in the ...