Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I certainly understand why many wonderful people hate religion. I know intelligent and compassionate people who use the word ...

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 ...

Some are. But many are not. Around a fifth of “nones” express consistently negative views of religion. They say it does more harm than good in society, encourages superstition and causes division.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the demographic changes taking place in our societies. At the same time, another transition seems to have escaped public notice. We are moving steadily to making ...

The concept of “ceremonial deism” plays an important role in how U.S. courts interpret religious language in public life. The term refers to phrases or symbols that originated in religious traditions ...

The DeSantis administration, in encouraging introduction of religious chaplains into Florida’s public schools, has published a definition of “religion” that appears to exclude world faiths with ...

Re “Religion’s Role, Revisited,” by Lauren Jackson (Sunday Styles, April 20): About a third of the way into this essay, I realized that the author was on the wrong track. Religion is not about the ...