Two new surveys were recently published, both showing the same thing: Religious people were more likely to be suspicious and unwelcoming of people who are different, while secular people were more ...

We live in a world where conversations about religion and secularity often paint an oversimplified picture. You've probably ...

Is secularism on the brink? Of collapse? Of wild success? Or, more modestly, of at least starting an essential conversation? A crucial aspect of any secular renaissance, he argues in his book and ...

I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my -- or any -- religion doesn't make sense, I don't accept it. That's why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five ...

Religious belief and practice are fading at an accelerating pace. The United States was long the great exception to the sociological generalization that secularization was an inevitable by-product of ...

Nearly three quarters of Czech adults do not identify with a religious group, and roughly two thirds say they do not believe in God. That's quite a statement for a nation that sits in the heart of ...

“The unique relationship between religion, the state and society is perhaps the most fundamental . . . feature of American religious as well as American political life,” says Economist Peter F.

Since dharma in our tradition has never meant religion in the narrow sense, dharma nirapekshata unnecessarily conveys indifference to a society’s moral values ...

You perhaps recall Napoleon’s question to Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, the French polymath, about why there was no mention of God in Laplace’s work on celestial mechanics. The French ...