On Wednesday afternoon, Russell T. McCutcheon had a Zoom call with the chair of a religious-studies department who wanted to get ahead of what has come to seem like an existential crisis in the field.

(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Americans aren’t giving up on God — they’re cutting ties with organized religion. A decade-long study tracking young Americans reveals a profound shift happening in religious life ...

One year, for Hanukkah, my grandmother gave me the Book of Mormon. She was not trying to convert me. She was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was Jewish, though a ...

This video explains the core difference between theology and religious studies. Theology engages questions raised within a faith tradition, often from an insider perspective. Religious studies ...

haWhen the great sociologist of religion, Robert Bellah, died suddenly this week he was in the midst of writing the book that was meant to be the successor to his massive and magisterial Religion in ...

The Church of the Holy Ascension, a Russian Orthodox church that is an historic landmark in Unalaska, is seen on Oct. 28, 2010. A new comparative analysis of states’ religiousness published this week ...