Meanwhile, America is building fewer churches. The amount of construction spending on religious structures has dropped by 62% since January 2002: church construction ...

Smith described organized religion to me as having become a “polluted” idea in the American mainstream, because of the publicity around sex abuse scandals and financial malfeasance in many ...

America’s secularization is on pause, people have stopped leaving churches, and religion is taking a more prominent role in public life — in the White House, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and even ...

In our book about America’s “secular surge ” we used data from a nationwide survey in 2017. In 2021, we conducted a second wave of that survey. According to data from that survey that we ...