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New poll finds even religious Americans feel the good vibrations
By Yonat Shimron — August 29, 2018
(RNS) — Most Americans mix traditional faith with beliefs in psychics, reincarnation and spiritual energy they say can be found in mountains, trees and crystals.
Losing their religion: Younger adults are less religious, and not only in the US
By Yonat Shimron — June 13, 2018
(RNS) — In a survey of 106 countries, younger people were found to be less religious than their elders. The exceptions were rare.
Europe: Not as secular as you think
By Tom Heneghan — May 29, 2018
PARIS (RNS) — Sixty-four percent of adults across Western Europe still identify as Christians, even if only 18 percent of them say they attend church at least once a month, a Pew survey found.
Baylor survey names a dozen who can really preach
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 2018
(RNS) — Professors of homiletics picked the dozen — 11 men and one woman — from nearly 800 nominees.
Muslims disapprove of country’s direction but are proud to call themselves Americans
By Yonat Shimron — May 1, 2018
(RNS) — The survey shows that despite experiencing more discrimination than other religious groups, American Muslims take pride in their U.S. identity as well as their faith and, for the most part, are gaining acceptance among other religious traditions.
Prayer may help relieve stress, but fewer Americans make time for it
By Yonat Shimron — December 21, 2017
(RNS) — As society grows less religious, fewer people are turning to prayer.
Most US Jews oppose Trump but the Orthodox stick with him
By Yonat Shimron — September 13, 2017
(RNS) — The vast majority of Jews did not vote for Trump, exit polls showed. But those who identify as Orthodox were the most supportive of Trump on Election Day and continue to give him high marks.
Britons reject creationism but some find evolutionary theory lacking, too
By Catherine Pepinster — September 5, 2017
LONDON (RNS) — Many religious people reject the story of Creation. But a significant number of Britons do not find that evolution provides a satisfactory explanation for human consciousness.
US Catholics and Protestants agree: 500 years after Reformation, they have more in common than not
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 31, 2017
(RNS) — In some cases, U.S. Protestants seemed unaware of the theological differences that split Catholics and Protestants in the 1500s, voicing beliefs that are more traditionally Catholic than they are Protestant.
Enlisting SpongeBob and ‘Game of Thrones’ to counter anti-Sikh prejudice
By Adelle M. Banks — August 23, 2017
(RNS) — 'I'm obsessed with Star Wars,' says a turbaned man who appears in one of the videos that are part of the 'We Are Sikhs' media campaign.
What is wrong with white Christians?
By John Gehring — August 10, 2017
(RNS) — Too many white Christians sacrifice the gospel’s radical solidarity with the poor and oppressed with comfortable, self-serving ideologies, writes John Gehring.
Muslim Americans worry about discrimination but profess faith in the American dream
By Adelle M. Banks — July 26, 2017
(RNS) — Almost 90 percent say they are proud to be both American and Muslim.
Good works of churches often go unnoticed
By Adelle M. Banks — July 20, 2017
(RNS) — Scant percentages of the 1,000 Americans surveyed knew that church members teach job skills, help immigrants learn English or provide tax preparation assistance.
Republicans, Democrats divided on impact of religion
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 10, 2017
(RNS) A majority of Americans overall (59 percent) see religion as a positive, compared to 26 percent who say it has a negative impact on the way things are going in the U.S., according to Pew.
No major US religious groups approve refusing service to gays
By Lauren Markoe — June 21, 2017
(RNS) White evangelical Protestants and Mormons showed the highest rates of approval for those who cite their religious belief as the basis for denying service to gays — but still less than a majority within those two groups hold this opinion.
