Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

The region's religious decline shows a surprising difference from patterns elsewhere. While fewer Latin Americans are identifying with a religion or attending services, personal faith remains strong.

Americans who had a good experience as children were likely to keep their faith. Those with bad experiences left, according ...

Fans were first introduced to the Plath family when they made their reality TV debut on Welcome to Plathville in 2019. While the family was initially known for their conservative values and were ...

A majority of adults still identify with their childhood religion, but 35% don’t. Read about when and why Americans may ...

This report seeks to answer the question: What might the religious makeup of the United States look like roughly 50 years from now, in 2070, if recent trends continue? We try to address this not with ...

Here is an (incomplete) list of challenges faced by religion in today's world: anti-intellectuality, attempts at enforcing trust in God, becoming a political tool for power, boredom, bullying and ...

When is yoga religious, and when is it… not religious enough? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll find out why these frameworks we call “religions” are so hard to define, and why our ...

So does Bitcoin’s having prophets, evangelists, and dietary laws make it a religion or not? As a scholar of religion, I think this is the wrong question to ask. The dirty secret of religious studies ...

There are enough Beyoncé fans around the world, who practically worship Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, to create a “church” with a large congregation. A church, of sorts, is in existence and is made ...