VATICAN CITY — Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s academic career has been crowned with numerous distinctions, to which was recently added the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, a sort of equivalent to ...

In a recent Pew Research survey on religious identification, almost 30% of Americans now identify with no religion, an increase of 10 percentage points from 10 years ago. Christians still constitute ...

The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History, by Michael Rosen (Belknap Press, 2022), 416 pages. We find ourselves living in increasingly secular times. For some of course, ...

This Register Symposium is not a physical conference, but a written collection of shared reflections from independent contributors with specialized knowledge regarding the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

According to a recent study by Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., religion is less important for Americans today than it was a ...

Readers of American news outlets are familiar with headlines about declining fertility rates and about increasing secularization. But news stories rarely discuss either of these phenomena as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An empty church in Hiers-Brouage, France. Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images About six months ago, Americans’ belief in ...

A symposium 25 years on. On June 1 and 2, 1990, the Pew Charitable Trust sponsored a major academic conference at Duke University on the subject of secularization in modern higher education. Those of ...

Is there an inexorable trend toward secularization in the West because younger generations are less likely to affiliate with organized religion? Or does long-standing evidence that people become more ...

Last year, a new survey from Britain revealed that in the last decade, the percentage of British adults who have no religious faith has risen from 43 percent to 52 percent; additionally, while 10 ...

Last week, Gallup released new data showing that standard Christian beliefs are at all-time lows. Back in 2001, 90% of Americans believed in God; that figure is now down to 74%. Belief in heaven has ...

Last year, a new survey from Britain revealed that in the last decade, the percentage of British adults who have no religious faith has risen from 43 percent to 52 percent; additionally, while 10 ...