Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about ...

Find out how adults who were raised as “nones” experienced religion as kids, and why they say they do – or don’t – affiliate ...

A stabilization of religious identification could mean the anticipated transformation of religious and civic life may slow.

According to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, a religious ritual is any repetitive and patterned behavior that is prescribed by or tied to a religious institution, belief or custom ...

Decline of religion remains stalled, says new Pew report. But there's no revival yet. (RNS) — For the past five years, the ...

Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger. Rituals aren’t meaningless actions. They can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect ...

Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...

The Easter Bunny is a much-celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might ...

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

"Now is the time of shadows, the time when we must feel our way. It is the time when the earth itself seems embraced by death ...