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 week, the Public Religion Research Institute released the results of a massive new survey of religious belief in America, the American Values Atlas. The Atlas contains dozens of maps on where ...

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 ...

Approximately 70 percent of Americans who are religious are of the Christian faith. Here is a breakdown of the most popular religion in every county in America according to data from the Association ...

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 ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Michigan and Ohio researchers are building a “sound map” of religion in Midwestern communities to explore religious diversity in a novel way. Religious and comparative ...

It is a map that summarizes what kind of religion is popular in each region by further delimiting each state of the United States. For example, although there are various sects even if it is a ...

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 ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...

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 ...