A new Smithsonian book and exhibition explores the ongoing conflicts and reconciliations between faith and technology in American life Peter Manseau - Curator, Religion, National Museum of American ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

American religiosity is in rapid decline according to numerous measures. However, Americans today remain more religious than many other countries and, by some measures, more religious than at many ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Near an overgrown patch of land on what is now college street in Springfield, hangs a marker commemorating the region’s first religious congregation. The marker also reminds us that ...

Acclaimed scholar Elaine Pagels is known for her work on the Gnostic Gospels and the origins of Christianity. Now in a beautiful, raw memoir she shows how that academic work was born out of loss and ...