In a recent Pew Research survey on religious identification, almost 30% of Americans now identify with no religion, an increase of 10 percentage points from 10 years ago. Christians still constitute ...

Two of the leading sociologists of religion over the past thirty years, Nancy T. Ammerman and José Casanova, join Boisi Center director Mark Massa, S.J. for a conversation about how to think about ...

According to a recent study by Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., religion is less important for Americans today than it was a ...

An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France. Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images About six months ago, Americans’ belief in God hit an all-time low. According to a 2022 Gallup survey, the ...

Is there an inexorable trend toward secularization in the West because younger generations are less likely to affiliate with organized religion? Or does long-standing evidence that people become more ...

VATICAN CITY — Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s academic career has been crowned with numerous distinctions, to which was recently added the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, a sort of equivalent to ...

The secularization of U.S. society — the waning of religious faith, practice and affiliation — is continuing at a dramatic and historically unprecedented pace. While many may consider such a ...

Editor's Note: Please find the full text and English translation of Pope Francis' homily as he presides over Vespers alongside bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral ...

A symposium 25 years on. On June 1 and 2, 1990, the Pew Charitable Trust sponsored a major academic conference at Duke University on the subject of secularization in modern higher education. Those of ...

The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History, by Michael Rosen (Belknap Press, 2022), 416 pages. We find ourselves living in increasingly secular times. For some of course, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France. Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images About six months ago, Americans’ belief in ...