Peter Straughan’s screenplay is based on a novel by the thriller writer Robert Harris ... that “secularism” is not the absence of religion (because religion is never absent; even groups ...

There’s a lot of pushback from the people in the pews,” said Scott Thumma, director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, who co-wrote the report with Charissa Mikoski, an assistant ...

(Editor’s Note: Thomas Farr, the president emeritus of the Religious Freedom Institute, received the 2024 Defender of Religious Freedom Award presented at the RFI’s annual dinner Nov. 13 in ...

President-elect Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a divisive denier of vaccine ... and the National Institutes of Health—the largest source of federal research funding for ...

“If the parents want to choose religious schools and want to preserve ... their religion as “none”), the Public Religion Research Institute’s surveys from 2014 onward (where respondents ...

Recent research conducted by Rice University ... a co-author of the study and director of the Religion and Public Life Center at the Boniak Institute, highlights the potential for dramatic ...

But Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute suggested that it might come down to economics for Hispanics, while Trump’s message about being tough on immigration and crime may have ...

Picture bacchanalian revels, wine, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll! That’s what people who leave religion are up to, right? Without the moral strictures of religion, and with all that additional ...

Robert Levins felt a sense of relief at word that hundreds of Catholic clergy sex abuse survivors on Long Island, himself included, had finally reached a court settlement with the Diocese of ...

Students will work with scientists at the SETI Institute and at the nearby NASA Ames Research Center on projects spanning the field of astrobiology, from microbiology to planetary geology to ...