(The Conversation) — Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people leaving organized religion altogether. (The Conversation ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The most important religious revolution of our time isn’t happening in mosques or churches. It’s happening on ...

This Pew Research Center report examines religious switching in the United States, including the reasons people give for staying in or leaving their childhood religion. It also looks at social and ...

Religion remains a significant force in modern society despite predictions that secularization would diminish its influence as technology and scientific understanding advanced. Today, religious ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Christians, the world's largest religious group, have one of the lowest global retention rates among major religions, a ...

“Nones” are adults who describe themselves religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” This report uses the terms “nones” and “religiously unaffiliated” interchangeably. Many “nones” ...

Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried ...

(RNS) — Religion in America might be best described in the words of rap artist LL Cool J: Don’t call it a comeback. At least not yet. Despite claims of a revival of religion in the United States, a ...