Religious Americans sometimes look nervously at the rapid secularization of European nations and wonder if something similar could happen to them. The last decade has witnessed a notable drift to the ...

This paper derives from a multi-method study of religion and politics in a mid-sized northeastern city. Whereas most assessments of secularization are oriented either to the individual or to broad ...

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 ...

Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has said that the "secularizing" of American culture is a "much larger issue" than political causes or the outcome of the presidential elections, warning against a ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening. (The Conversation) — About six months ...

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 ...

As a "relatively recent" convert to Catholicism, Newt Gingrich called his speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington Wednesday morning, one of the "most daunting" he'd ever faced.

Secularization is the best thing that’s ever happened to religion. That might seem like a shocking statement for both religious and secular people. But its implications become clear when we unpack new ...