Most Americans say they have more in common with someone in the same age group or political party over five other identity classifications, a poll found. Twenty-seven percent of Americans say they ...

The Pew Research Center attributes the long-term decline in Christianity to generational replacement. Older generations, who ...

But is it so? In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed ...

In most cases, they are now unaffiliated ... and Australia are former Christians who are no longer religious. The US is not far behind at 19 percent. While the survey doesn’t indicate when ...

In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have ...

(source) The academic study of religion as we know it today can be traced to the 19th century encounter of Western scholars and theologians with non-Western cultures. In the United States ...