Most U.S. adults express positive views about America’s openness to people from around the world, the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. This is true across the religious spectrum. Upward of ...

‘Fasting gives us both an opportunity, I think, to sort of channel our spiritual practices, but also to remind us of our mortality in a way that we simply don’t have in the 21st century,’ said author ...

The wise warrior avoids the battle,” states The Art of War, a treatise on military strategy that is attributed to the Chinese ...

Miracles by definition defy science. But a new research effort attempts to understand what our experiences with them do to the brain. A nun holds an image of the Lady of Guadalupe while waiting for ...

On balance, U.S. adults are more likely to view religion as helpful than as harmful: 44% say religion does more good than harm, while 19% say it does more harm than good. About one-third think it does ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

Around the world, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and Buddhist coaches and influencers are creating their own faith-based platforms for fitness.

The United States is in the "second stage" of a transition from being religious to secular, a study shows. This "second stage" refers to when "the importance of religion declines in people's personal ...

Readers question Ross Douthat’s arguments about belief. To the Editor: Re “How to Choose a Religion,” by Ross Douthat (column, Feb. 2): The one question that Mr. Douthat leaves unanswered: “Why make ...