Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes
next? The world is becoming less religious. Since 2007, there has been a pervasive decline …

Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is
undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the …

Scholars over the past several decades have noted the resilience of religion in the United
States (Chaves 2011; Gorski and Altınordu 2008; Hadden 1987: 601–02; Presser and …

It is high time that we subject religion as a global phenomenon to the most intensive
multidisciplinary research we can muster, calling on the best minds on the planet. Why …

As the new millennium approaches, the sacred and profane interface, conflict, and
intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map …

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of
Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the …

God is not dead in America, but the way he lives and breathes has nothing in common with
the old-time religion dramatized in" Inherit the Wind." In this groundbreaking work, leading …

More than anywhere else in the Western world, religious attachments in America are quite
flexible, with over 40 percent of US citizens shifting their religious identification at least once …

According to two recent reports, between 15 and 18 percent of Americans are now
religiously unaffiliated, up from 7 percent in 1991. Using Wave 1 of the Portraits of American …

Recent research argues that the United States is secularizing, that this religious change is
consistent with the secularization thesis, and that American religion is not exceptional. But …