By comparison, seven-in-ten Americans overall (71%) say they are Christian, including 70% of whites, 77% of Latinos and just 34% of Asian Americans. Meanwhile, about seven-in-ten blacks are Protestant ...

Protestants have become the new American minority. According to the latest number crunching at the National Opinion Research Center, the number of Americans who say they are Baptist, Methodist ...

The “Protestant work ethic” is a term coined by sociologist Max Weber, whose seminal work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, delineated how links made by theologians between ...

Protestants decline, more have no religion in a sharply shifting religious landscape ... In the same time, the number of Americans who say they have no religion has nearly doubled, ...

More than three-in-four African-American Protestants (and 59% of African-Americans overall) belong to historically black Protestant denominations, such as the National Baptist Convention or the ...

I went back this morning to read political scientist James Kurth’s brilliant 2001 speech delivered to the Philadelphia Society, on the subject of what he calls “the Protestant Deformation ...

Weber, an acclaimed German sociologist, didn't have contemporary Americans in mind, or Protestants exclusively, when he issued his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in German ...

Rose discusses the tenets of “Death Of God” theology — that is, how a group of liberal Protestant theologians in the 1960s came to believe and to proclaim that being faithful to Christ meant ...

FOR THE first time in its history, the United States does not have a Protestant majority, according to a new study, as the number of Americans with no religious affiliation continues to rise.

How American Protestant missionaries helped usher in post-Protestant America. David Hollinger shows how the social gospel principles that drove mission abroad boomeranged back home. by Robert ...

About half of the 40 million Irish Americans are Protestant according to the General Social Survey (GSS), a national survey that collects data on demographics and attitudes, while only one third ...