The experiences of religious groups are sometimes closely tied to the patterns found in the regions where they reside. Religious groups also are distributed unevenly around the world. Christians are ...

Demography is not destiny when human choices are involved. The patterns we see in religious switching are a product of thousands of individual choices every day. More broadly, demography is not ...

Why does religion take the form it does, and why do religious people believe in God? Shermer's answer is that the human impulse to interpret our lives meaningfully leads to identifying patterns of ...

We are talking about the very freedom of religious belief that Americans have always enjoyed. A dangerous pattern of governmental intrusion and coercion is emerging, that, if left unchecked and ...

religion is only one of many factors that lead to instability and violence in largely Muslim states. It is a critical ideological force in shaping the current patterns of extremism, but it does not ...

New global findings published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, a peer-reviewed academic journal, suggest the worldwide pattern of religious affiliation at a person's time of death is ...

Much of people's relationships to food can be explained by religious patterns of thought. Our words are often more philosophical than scientific. And our words inform approaches to eating ...