Religiosity is crucial to civil society. This sentiment was expressed by none other than the country's first president, ...

Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.

America’s religious identity continues to evolve, and recent Gallup polling from 2025 put a spotlight on a sizable shift ...

Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

Ryan Burge’s Vanishing Church shows the importance of faith for America. Burge is a sociologist who has carved out a nearly singular online profile as a prominent purveyor of charts and graphs about ...

Religious followers that represent less than three percent of Americans are the most educated in the country, according to a national study. Hindus and Jewish Americans are the most likely to have a ...

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The U.S. Founders, including Jefferson and Washington, envisioned a nation of religious pluralism, embracing Muslims and Jews.

The proportion of non-religious people in America is growing in every U.S. state except South Dakota, new research suggests. Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the ...