Belief in a spiritual realm beyond the physical world remains very common among U.S. adults, the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. Roughly eight-in-ten Americans believe “there is ...

More than 20% of adults have departed from the religious groups in which they were raised, according to a Pew Research Center study spanning 36 countries. The trend, called “religious switching,” has ...

Across religious traditions, the pattern is clear,” write three researchers in an op-ed. “In nearly every case — and across two distinct datasets — greater religious attendance is associated with ...

First Congregational Church on East Broad Street in downtown Columbus. How religious is Ohio? And how does the state compare to the rest of the county? This is a question not answered by the U.S.

Many questions in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) previously were asked in the 2007 and 2014 landscape studies. Measuring change over time on these questions is one key goal of the new RLS ...

Religious people are not more generous than non-religious except in one case, a new study found. Dylan Gillis via Unsplash People of faith are not more generous than non-religious people — except in ...

The Pew study finds the decline of Christianity in the United States has slowed and may have leveled off. The Pew Research Center's third Religious Landscape Study finds 62% of U.S. adults describe ...

This story was originally published on mynorthwest.com. Washington qualified as one of the least religious and spiritual states in the country, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

In the digital age, technology continues to transform various aspects of life, including spiritual and religious practices. One of the most groundbreaking developments in this realm is the ...

A new study that compares the effectiveness of religious and secular charities has found that nonsectarian job-training groups in Indiana were more successful at helping clients obtain full-time ...

In October, 2015, Hunt Priest, then a minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island, in Washington State, was flipping through The Christian Century, a progressive Protestant magazine, when ...