The furious debate in some quarters over whether America was born a “Christian nation” is ironic. The historical record shows…
Was early America a Christian America?
religious nones
Spirit quest
At the New York Times, Charles M. Blow weighs in on new data showing that "Young adults are looking for…
Beyond believing but not belonging
Religious identification is on the wane in the United States, as in most other nations in the developed world. Yet,…
Religion’s reputation
In 2008, roughly 15 percent of Americans told telephone surveyors with the American Religious Identification Survey that they had no…
Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”
Muriel Kane at The Raw Story reports on a Gallup poll released on Christmas Eve with some new numbers about…
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…
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…