Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American society. It protects freedom of conscience, allowing individuals to live ...

A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S.” By Sam Roberts Martin E. Marty, a pre-eminent religious ...

What Ohio doesn’t need is the state deciding which religious stories are “positive” and which ones are ignored. History is complicated, filled with both achievements and failures. Students deserve to ...

OREM — Experts from around the country convened Thursday to discuss the evolution of religious liberty in America at Utah Valley University's annual First Amendment Conference. Lawyers and academics ...

North America – comprised in this report of the United States and Canada – had 378 million inhabitants in 2020, a 9% increase since 2010. 29 Christians are by far the largest religious group in the ...

After decades of steady decline, new research indicates that the number of Americans identifying as religious may have stabilized, signaling a possible plateau in the nation’s ongoing religious ...

Providential and secular America : founding the republic -- Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division -- The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : ...

The United States is in the "second stage" of a transition from being religious to secular, a study shows. This "second stage" refers to when "the importance of religion declines in people's personal ...