Participation in online religious communities and practices ("liking" religious pages on Facebook, posting religious messages, and joining online religious communities)…
Debating online religious practices
unchurched believers
Representing the unrepresented
The religiously “unaffiliated”---atheists, agnostics, nonconformists, the unchurched and the uncertain---are underrepresented in Congress, notes Richard Blow today in The New…
Was early America a Christian America?
The furious debate in some quarters over whether America was born a “Christian nation” is ironic. The historical record shows…
Shifting drivers of change
Today, contemporary voluntary religion entails a “common-sense” epistemology that in some ways is strangely unaware of its own limits. Today’s…
Who has ‘religion’?
More and more Americans say they have no formal religious affiliation. National surveys, scholarly findings, and media coverage make that…
Unchurched believers
In 2002 we reported that the fraction of American adults with no religious preference doubled from 7 to 14 percent…
Religious “nones” and the future of American religion
A number of recent studies have attempted to analyze the emergent and fast-growing segment of American society that declines any…