Practice Over Primacy: Belief is frequently an emergent property of sustained religious and communal practice, not its necessary antecedent. Embodied Construction: Rituals are a powerful form of ...

This latest study is important because it’s the first time we’ve asked people why they identify with their current religion,’ a senior researcher says ...

Slightly more than half of U.S. adults surveyed still identify with their childhood religion. For Catholics, retention rates ...

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Americans who had a good experience as children were likely to keep their faith. Those with bad experiences left, according ...

A new study from BYU finds that a family’s religious beliefs and practices are a key catalyst to promote hope in the future and hope to manage personal challenges, which can help families build ...

Season 10 of Basketball Wives has been full of surprises and drama, of course. In the latest episode of the reality series, the opportunity to meet a pair of real-life witches both surprised the group ...

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

Before the return to campus after more than a year and a half of being online in the midst of a continuing pandemic, USC announced it would require vaccinations, making it the “cornerstone” of the ...

(RNS) — Bucar invites readers to 'interrogate the stance that we are entitled to take religious practices from others for our own needs.' (RNS) — White folks with dreadlocks. Models sporting $800 ...

(RNS) — Rami Nsour, an advocate for the incarcerated, has seen firsthand how difficult it can be for those being held in California’s jails and prisons to practice their faith. As his clients are ...

Anti-Israel protesters have a new target: synagogues. Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side saw violent protesters hurl ...