American churches could not rely on the state for financial support. Private philanthropy helped them survive – and shaped the country’s religious diversity today.
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Politicians from all three Abrahamic religions are using scripture to back their positions.
The church, whose members are often known as Mormons, has grown from a small community to 17.5 million members around the world – but not without some tensions.
The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.
How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the Christian right today.
‘Cultural Catholics’ who rarely attend Mass now make up half of the US church.
Some Americans hear claims of anti-Christian bias as a signal of white solidarity, according to a 2024 study.
The history of Christian support for a Jewish state far predates the religious right.
A common assumption holds that nonreligious Americans vote for liberal candidates. The reality isn’t so simple.
Christians are diverse in terms of race, denomination, theology and other factors. Yet on average, some of their views are growing more similar, a scholar argues.
America holds a unique place in the faith’s teachings, but awareness of the church’s often precarious place in US culture has made it wary of mixing religion and state.
Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains.
Much of the tourism industry that’s sprung up around Amish areas says more about Americans’ own identity than Amish values, a scholar writes.
Two social scientists analyzed periodicals from US religious leaders in 1935 to determine what factors influenced groups’ sympathy, ambivalence or outrage about Hitler and Nazi Germany.
America’s religious landscape is getting more diverse as people find new ways of expressing spirituality.
Thousands gathered to express their collective identity and desire to preserve the nation’s political and religious heritage – and to uphold what they saw as the rightful outcome of the 2020 election.
Islamic views on abortion are based on diverse interpretations of what’s right and wrong when it comes to the body.
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