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Study: Unaffiliated Americans are the only growing religious group
By Yonat Shimron — March 27, 2024
(RNS) — The Catholic Church saw the largest decline in religious affiliation of any religious group in 2023.
Why do I still go to church? It’s a good question.
By Amy Julia Becker — September 18, 2023
(RNS) — There's more to it than community or spirituality or even wanting to raise my kids right.
Bringing light without God: Humanist chaplain Anthony Cruz Pantojas
By Joshua Stanton and Benjamin Spratt — June 28, 2023
(RNS) — As colleges move to serve the 35% of millennials and 40% of Gen Z who say they are religiously unaffiliated, the number of humanist chaplains is growing.
Report: LGBTQ Americans tend to be younger and have no religion
By Bob Smietana — March 23, 2023
(RNS) — The new report from PRRI also found that many religious Americans support LGBTQ nondiscrimination rights, even those who oppose same sex-marriage.
More Americans stay away from church as pandemic nears year three
By Bob Smietana — January 5, 2023
(RNS) — Many Americans already had dropped out of church life before the pandemic. COVID-19 gave them a reason to let go completely, according to a new survey.
A majority of people in Scotland have no religion
By Trevor Grundy — April 5, 2016
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Only 20 percent say they belong to the Church of Scotland -- the Presbyterian Church that for so long dominated life in that country.
ANALYSIS: ‘Gravity’ and the unanswered questions of unbelief
By Jeffrey Weiss — October 7, 2013
(RNS) Most of the reviews for "Gravity" don’t mention that the main character represents an increasingly common theme in American religion: The spiritual “none of the above.”
Religious diversity is increasing at the office, and so are pitfalls
By David Gibson — August 29, 2013
RNS) The American workplace is becoming more religiously diverse and that is raising concerns about employer accommodations for believers -- and increasing the odds for uncomfortable moments around the water cooler. But part of the potential for conflict is also due to the growing number of nonbelievers and the desire by white evangelicals to share their faith.
The `nones’ now form the world’s third-largest ‘religion’ *
By Kimberly Winston — December 18, 2012
(RNS) A new report on global religious identity shows that while Christians and Muslims make up the two largest groups, those with no religious affiliation — including atheists and agnostics — are now the third-largest “religious” group in the world. The study, released Tuesday (Dec. 18) by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, […]
Catholic intensity fades as evangelical devotion surges
By David Gibson — November 29, 2012
(RNS) New research shows that Catholics report the lowest proportion of strongly affiliated followers among major American religious traditions. Evangelicals, on the other hand, are increasingly devout and committed to their faith. By David Gibson.
The biggest slice of Obama’s religious coalition? The unaffiliated
By Lauren Markoe — October 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (RNS) The largest slice of Obama’s religious coalition -- at 23 percent -- is not very religious. They’re “nones,” also known as unaffiliated voters, according to a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. By Lauren Markoe.
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