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You can outgrow a belief without outgrowing the people who gave it to you.

Ahead of the census in August, campaign group suggests current poll design overstates the nation’s religiousness ...

But which gender is narrowing it—and why?

From the 98% of Indonesians who say religion is very important in their lives to the 96% of Cambodians who burn incense, people in the countries surveyed generally appear to be highly religious, based ...

Median levels of government restrictions and social hostilities rose in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa.

Federal Bureau of Prisons leadership is embracing faith in programming for inmates, even leading functions in prison.

However, for people who do still attend religious services, they say they're optimistic about the future of their house of worship. Those are among the findings of a new report from the Public ...

What was religious life like in America in 1776? In this episode of the Harvard Religion Beat podcast, Professor Catherine ...

Controversies regarding religion in the classroom in the United States are as old as the public school system itself. Most recently, a Louisiana law mandates that posters of the Ten Commandments be ...