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Politics, religion and Pew
Everyone knows that in order to keep peace in polite company, religion and politics should be avoided. But the two are intertwined in the Pew Research Center’s new report, “Jewish…
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Separating Church and State in US has far more supporters than opponents
Most Americans oppose declaring Christianity, or any other religion, as official faith of the United States, results of a recent poll show illustrating that politics and religious affiliation are major…
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Government restrictions on religion stay high across the world as terrorism declines: Report
Government restrictions on religion stay high across the world as terrorism declines: Report
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Republicans and Democrats switch sides on religion vs. science
(RNS) — As public health officials grapple with the slowing rate of COVID-19 vaccinations in the U.S., two groups of Americans stand out as being particularly resistant to rolling up…
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What’s a ‘Jew of no religion’? 3 American Jews open up about their non-religious identities
New Yorker Sophie Vershbow had an epiphany about religious Judaism just before her bat mitzvah. Photo by Peter Cunningham Jesse Wilks had a bar mitzvah — just not a religious…
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Bob Abernethy, host and founder of ‘Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly,’ dies at 93
(RNS) — Veteran broadcast journalist Bob Abernethy, who founded the PBS program “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly,” has died at the age of 93. He died on Sunday (May 2) in…
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Religion follows patterns of politicization during COVID-19
Research shows people turn to religion in times of fear and uncertainty – and March 2020 was one of those times. To find the impact of religion during the early…
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Racism, misogyny, guns and religion: Experts call Atlanta “an unmistakable American stew”
Last Tuesday, a 21-year-old white man named Robert Aaron Long apparently went on a shooting spree, killing seven women and one man at three spas in the Atlanta area. Six of the…
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Jana Riess: ‘Allergic to religion’ — Conservative politics can push people out of the pews
There’s a massive religious shift occurring in America as one of the world’s most religious nations becomes more secular every year. In “Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American…
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The most intriguing books on religion we read this year
(RNS) — Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential…