This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Catholic or switch out of Catholicism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious switching in the ...

The Protestant mainline, by whatever name, was bound to make a comeback—at least as a subject of academic discourse. The “mainline” is usually identified with seven Protestant denominations, it was ...

Note: 10% did not answer the question. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding. Margin of error for 2023-24 figures based on beliefs-and-practices who are ...

Beth Felker Jones’s book charitably holds up its merits against other traditions. In an age which often seems characterized by vitriol, division, and polarization among Christians, books such as Beth ...

Religion before English expansion -- Reformation and the politicization of religious expansion -- Exporting the religious tensions of the three kingdoms -- Restoration settlement and the growth of ...

Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. Sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that married couples have a constitutional right to use contraception. Griswold v. Connecticut, ...