Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice When we think of world religions, we often think of the Big Five: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But why do ...

The United States’ founders set out to create a country where citizens would be free to practice whatever religion they chose. Does all that freedom fuel religious switching? Yes, but not as much as ...

While Christianity remained the largest global religion from 2010 to 2020, the latest Pew Research study found that followers of Islam outpaced every world religion in population over the course of ...

A new study from the Pew Research Center provides a global snapshot of religious change between 2010 and 2020, showing Muslims as the fastest-growing faith group, followed by people with no religious ...

From August 14 to 18, 2023, I attended a Parliament of the World Religions in Chicago. The gathering drew together more than 7,000 people representing about 100 countries and more than 200 different ...

Religion seems to be a complicated and many-sided issue. On one hand, religion reportedly motivates charity, compassion, ethics, goodwill, kindness, morality, righteousness, selflessness, unity, etc.

Christians, the world's largest religious group, have one of the lowest global retention rates among major religions, a new report has found. A Pew Research Center report published last Thursday found ...

It is easy to dismiss any suggestion of a new world religion. After all, look at the division and conflict, the extent of human suffering, caused by opposition among the religions we have already. But ...

Apart from Muslims, the only other group that grew as a percentage of the global population were those who identify as having no religion, known as 'nones.' The report covered 201 countries, focusing ...