Last year, a new survey from Britain revealed that in the last decade, the percentage of British adults who have no religious faith has risen from 43 percent to 52 percent; additionally, while 10 ...

“The central claim of this book,” writes Christian Smith in the preface to The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Life, just published by the ...

The idea of secularization is fundamental to contemporary debates over the sociology of religion. As sociologist Steve Bruce puts the issue succinctly, “The basic proposition is that modernization ...

In the classic narratives of adultery, such as those of David and Bathsheba or Lancelot and Guinevere, infidelity was viewed as a profound transgression against divine law and moral order. Adultery ...

Historian and philanthropist George McCully has published "Christianity Then and Now: Can it Be Saved?" presenting an ...

There is a very understandable desire among the faithful in Ireland — and elsewhere — to interpret this month’s rejection by Irish voters of a pair of “woke” constitutional amendments as a decisive ...

Eberstadt is the author of several books, including It’s Dangerous to Believe and How the West Really Lost God. On the surface, as the global thumbs-up from excited Christians goes to show, the ...

Here is an (incomplete) list of challenges faced by religion in today's world: anti-intellectuality, attempts at enforcing trust in God, becoming a political tool for power, boredom, bullying and ...

(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, ...

Galen Watts is an Associate Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Societal Futures based jointly at St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo. He receives funding from the ...