It is time to recognize the usefulness of the concept of the secular for the good of the world. We get the word “secular” from the church because the church made a distinction between secular priests, ...

According to a recent study by Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., religion is less important for Americans today than it was a ...

(The Conversation) — Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening. (The Conversation) — About six months ...

What Secular Societies May Be Getting Wrong About Raising Mentally Healthy Kids In A Nutshell A 30-year study across 70 ...

Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU. Anyone who thinks about the current civil war in America comes to realize that it is, in ...

There is no question that the role of religion in the lives of the public has greatly diminished in Western nations. Christian denominations that were once filling churches as fast as they could build ...

I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my -- or any -- religion doesn't make sense, I don't accept it. That's why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five ...

The idea of secularization is fundamental to contemporary debates over the sociology of religion. As sociologist Steve Bruce puts the issue succinctly, “The basic proposition is that modernization ...

Last year, a new survey from Britain revealed that in the last decade, the percentage of British adults who have no religious faith has risen from 43 percent to 52 percent; additionally, while 10 ...

You perhaps recall Napoleon’s question to Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, the French polymath, about why there was no mention of God in Laplace’s work on celestial mechanics. The French ...

(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, ...