Most U.S. adults express positive views about America’s openness to people from around the world, the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. This is true across the religious spectrum. Upward of ...

In the early years of the twenty-first century, religion seemed to be on the rise. The collapse of both communism and the Soviet Union had left an ideological vacuum that was being filled by Orthodox ...

Editor’s note: As the Nov. 3 election draws near, the Daily Universe is exploring different national and local issues impacting voters in a series of stories. Students and faculty at BYU say that ...

Is it any wonder the country is revisiting faith? Credit...Iris Legendre Supported by By Lauren Jackson On Sundays, I used to stand in front of my Mormon congregation and declare that it all was true.

At my synagogue, Temple Micah in Washington, D.C., we often read this short poem at Friday night Shabbat services: Lead me into the mystery. That poem’s simple idea has for years struck me as a ...

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Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

Controversies regarding religion in the classroom in the United States are as old as the public school system itself. Most recently, a Louisiana law mandates that posters of the Ten Commandments be ...

This story is adapted from How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, by David DeSteno. Even though I was raised Catholic, for most of my adult life, I didn’t pay religion much heed.