Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of ...

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What are the two things you’re never supposed to discuss at the dinner table? Politics and religion. Despite most Americans identifying as religious and the United States being the most religious ...

Bosses may be less likely to ask employees to cheat People share many different things at work to try to brighten the drudgery of office life. They append moral quotes to an email signature line. They ...

(RNS) — Church leaders have been facing a grim reality that fewer Americans attend church each year. According to the General Social Survey, in 1972, 29% of American adults reported attending ...

(The Conversation) — As the United States gets less religious, is it also getting more selfish? Historically, religious Americans have been civically engaged. Through churches and other faith-based ...

Research suggests the current generation of religious young adults might value abstinence more than those in past decades. Religious worldviews and attitudes may be a key motivation for abstaining ...

Dexter Voisin, Case Western Reserve University Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences dean, is senior author of two studies that suggests Black teens involved in religious ...