America's diversity means it is not defined by a single ancestry or faith tradition. Americans may nevertheless unite behind a "civil religion" that incorporates the nation's founding principles.

The disgraced televangelist built his career on an undeniable talent. His downfall contributed to a major shift in how ...

A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

A plethora of religious iconography fill the National Museum of American History's new exhibit, Religion in Early America.From left to right, an 18th century Torah scroll, a 17th century Catholic ...

The idea of American exceptionalism has become so dubious that much of its modern usage is merely sarcastic. But when it comes to religion, Americans really are exceptional. No rich country prays ...

If America is a civil religion, it would make sense that it stays with you, unless you renounce it. As Jeff Gedmin, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, ...

Whitman called it America’s “religious” ideal. Whitman’s use of that word is bound to strike some as strange. For most Americans, religion means the Abrahamic faiths.

New data reveals a seismic shift: nearly 30% of Americans now identify as having no religious affiliation, a group dubbed the “Nones.” This surge, often termed nones rising America religion ...

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life worked with the producers of “God in America” to give thousands of people a quiz on religious knowledge and religious history. Maybe you’ve read ...

His American Religion — and Whitman’s, too — owes much to British and European Romanticism, evolving Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and pantheism, ...

Some analysts of religious life in the United States have expressed qualms about connotations of the term “nones.” As sociologist Glenn M. Vernon of the University of Utah wrote in the Journal for the ...