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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A comprehensive new COST Action COREnet database has been launched, presenting the body of academic research at the intersection of religion and ...

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 ...

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 ...