This article first appeared on the London School of Economics site. The religiosity of the United States has impressed observers since the early 19th century, and American levels of religious ...

Here is a proposition that may seem self-evident to many people: As societies become more modern, religion loses its grip. People separate their religion from their institutions and from parts of ...

Back in the 1960s, there was almost universal acceptance among social scientists of the “secularization thesis,” the belief that as societies became more modern—more economically developed, ...

Three reasons the narrative of rapid secularization is incomplete. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Fifty years ago, many observers of American religion assumed that secularization would gradually ...

Almost twenty years ago, Hugh McLeod contributed a shrewd essay to what was then the best all-around collection of essays debating the meaning and extent of secularization. That book, edited by Steve ...

The idea of secularization is fundamental to contemporary debates over the sociology of religion. As sociologist Steve Bruce puts the issue succinctly, “The basic proposition is that modernization ...

The 31st anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution of Iran will be held on Wednesday. He is known to many global figures and enjoys different characteristics ...

The Vatican has opened an express lane to traditional Anglicans—who are unhappy with their own church’s moves toward accepting female and gay bishops—to reunite with the Roman Catholic Church their ...