Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of ...

Does a commitment to one's God facilitate altruistic behavior that benefits only members of the same religious group? Or does it extend to helping members of a different religion? University of ...

Religious behavior is almost always assessed through one simple measure – frequency of religious attendance. And there’s a good reason for that: it’s included in basically every survey of American ...

The people most at risk of violence for their faith are usually not the ones who belong to a religious minority but the ones who do something with their religion, and the violence against such active ...

Is religion making a comeback, or is it still in a state of decline? Different studies are coming to different conclusions. Ryan Burge, perhaps the most prominent religious demographer, notes that ...

What are the two things you’re never supposed to discuss at the dinner table? Politics and religion. Despite most Americans identifying as religious and the United States being the most religious ...

Psychiatrists and clergymen, meeting over the ailing psyche of modern man, still eye one another suspiciously. Rare is the churchman who makes systematic use of psychiatric techniques in his ministry ...

In the religious / spiritual dimension of your life, how do you identify? For example, with respect to religion / spirituality, fill in the blank: “I am a(n) _____.“ You may find this sentence easy to ...

Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of ...