Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of ...

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Why would religion matter for physical health?

Religion's influence is changing as atheism, secular humanism, and personalized spirituality continue to grow. Explore why ...

Over the last two decades, which witnessed an explosion of religious disaffiliation, it was men more than women who were abandoning their faith commitments. In fact, for as long as we’ve conducted ...

(RNS) — Church leaders have been facing a grim reality that fewer Americans attend church each year. According to the General Social Survey, in 1972, 29% of American adults reported attending ...

In the religious / spiritual dimension of your life, how do you identify? For example, with respect to religion / spirituality, fill in the blank: “I am a(n) _____.“ You may find this sentence easy to ...

Bosses may be less likely to ask employees to cheat People share many different things at work to try to brighten the drudgery of office life. They append moral quotes to an email signature line. They ...

What are the two things you’re never supposed to discuss at the dinner table? Politics and religion. Despite most Americans identifying as religious and the United States being the most religious ...

Research suggests the current generation of religious young adults might value abstinence more than those in past decades. Religious worldviews and attitudes may be a key motivation for abstaining ...