Comparatively, fertility rates among less-than-weekly-attending Americans drops to around 1.7 and below 1.5 for nonreligious Americans, based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) ...

How religious constituencies function under authoritarian regimes depends, of course, on how they view those regimes, and vice versa.

Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, he argues, constructed fascism, Nazism and communism as national political religions to some extent modeled on familiar religious beliefs and forms.

State Department leadership must proceed with extreme caution in this reorganization to avoid the mistakes of their predecessors.

In 'Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America,' Christian Smith argues that traditional institutional religion has lost its grasp on America—at least among Americans ...

Federal employees may discuss and promote their religious beliefs in the workplace, the Trump administration said on Monday, ...

Jim Laine , a religious studies professor at Macalester College who also teaches a world religions course at the University said the role religion used to play is now being taken over by political ...

Let us stress Howard-Brook’s point about the religion of empire — it focuses on the abundance of some at the expense of others.

A Supreme Court reporter and an education reporter explain faith’s new role in schools.