In many ways, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a stable and traditional community, a new Pew Research Center study shows. Latter-day Saints (widely known as Mormons) have ...

For most of human history, religion served as far more than a personal belief system. It shaped laws, influenced governments, guided moral codes, explained natural phenomena, and provided a framework ...

Are you a spiritual person or a religious person? People are inclined to think that these two lifestyles are the same, and on the surface they are. What they both have in common is connecting to ...

Religion isn’t just about gods—it’s how humans have made sense of life, death, and the unknown for thousands of years. From ...

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Editor's note: Daily Universe senior reporters Andrea Cabrera and Sydnee Gonzalez interviewed individuals in Utah and Washington, D.C., to see how politics and religion intersect in the United States.

For many years, Pew Research Center’s standard question about religious identity has asked, “What is your present religion, if any?” We asked that question again in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape ...

America is a spiritual paradox: it is, at the same time, the most religious and the most secular nation in the world. From 1949 to 1953, U.S. distribution of the Scriptures jumped 140%. In a recent ...

Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried ...

Can religious faith make you happier? It’s a question that has plagued happiness scientists. While it makes sense that religion could bring meaning to people’s lives, meaning is not necessarily the ...