“The central claim of this book,” writes Christian Smith in the preface to The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Life, just published by the ...

This Register Symposium is not a physical conference, but a written collection of shared reflections from independent contributors with specialized knowledge regarding the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

In a recent Pew Research survey on religious identification, almost 30% of Americans now identify with no religion, an increase of 10 percentage points from 10 years ago. Christians still constitute ...

VATICAN CITY — Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s academic career has been crowned with numerous distinctions, to which was recently added the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, a sort of equivalent to ...

The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History, by Michael Rosen (Belknap Press, 2022), 416 pages. We find ourselves living in increasingly secular times. For some of course, ...

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 ...

Readers of American news outlets are familiar with headlines about declining fertility rates and about increasing secularization. But news stories rarely discuss either of these phenomena as a ...

A symposium 25 years on. On June 1 and 2, 1990, the Pew Charitable Trust sponsored a major academic conference at Duke University on the subject of secularization in modern higher education. Those of ...

Is there an inexorable trend toward secularization in the West because younger generations are less likely to affiliate with organized religion? Or does long-standing evidence that people become more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France. Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images About six months ago, Americans’ belief in ...

This week’s blog is really a follow-up to the last blog that I posted. A number of friends and readers in more or less friendly fashion, basically said to me that the model that I proposed, that ...