Coming from a Reform Jewish family in New York City, the major has been an opportunity for Duke student Sarah Diaz to delve ...

A sweeping census on the state of American religion reveals a less sensational tale of Christianity in decline and a rise of the religiously unaffiliated compared to a decade ago. Pew Research Center ...

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 ...

Sociology can help us see neglected drivers of religious beliefs. But it shouldn’t lose focus on the beliefs themselves. You should read Religion for Realists: Why We All Need the Scientific Study of ...

An article from Religion Dispatches covers a recent interview given by seven female scholars including Nancy Ammerman PhD, professor of sociology of religion at the School of Theology. Women involved ...

U.S. adults with low levels of religious engagement are much more likely than highly religious Americans to say the government should provide more assistance to people in need (58% vs. 35%). About one ...

Haji Syed Salman Chishty, the Gaddi-Nashin of Ajmer Dargah Sharif, represented India at a US symposium, highlighting the ...

A childhood diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is linked to lower religious service attendance in ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Russell T. McCutcheon had a Zoom call with the chair of a religious-studies department who wanted to get ahead of what has come to seem like an existential crisis in the field.

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