News

New Islamic endowments emerging for funerals, other charitable purposes
August 13, 2025
Saudi Arabia embraces economics of pilgrimage
August 13, 2025
Hindu heritage cities in India challenge religious pluralism
August 13, 2025
Findings & Footnotes
August 13, 2025
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
August 13, 2025
Platforming religion: an interview with Paul Seabright
July 16, 2025
Vatican seeking new diplomatic role under Leo XIV
July 16, 2025
Anti-Semitism gaining entry to evangelicals through social media
July 16, 2025
Gen Z women finding contentment at convents?
July 16, 2025
CURRENT RESEARCH
July 16, 2025
Muslim Brotherhood running a stealth strategy of Islamist politics and anti-Semitism in Europe?
July 16, 2025
Secular aspirations continue to build in Iran
July 16, 2025
Rise and fall of alliance between Turkey’s AKP and the Muslim Brotherhood
July 16, 2025
How far can the resurgence of Tengrism go in Kazakhstan?
July 16, 2025
Findings & Footnotes
July 16, 2025
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
July 16, 2025
Whatever happened to the atheist movement?
June 9, 2025
Conservative Christians embracing micro-college alternative
June 9, 2025
Eastern Orthodoxy—a religion for young men?
June 9, 2025
Evangelicals taking a creedal turn?
June 9, 2025
Pope Leo XIV as both conservative and revolutionary?
June 9, 2025
CURRENT RESEARCH
June 9, 2025
Greenland’s Pentecostal revival overtakes rival faiths
June 9, 2025
War opening way to new roles for women in Ukraine, including in evangelical churches
June 9, 2025
Buddhist movement de-globalizing, going local
June 8, 2025
Pentecostal noise pollution an ecological and social problem in Nigeria
June 8, 2025
Findings & Footnotes
June 8, 2025
Pope Leo XIV: maintaining Francis mode of papacy while taking unifying approach to church governance
May 14, 2025
Rumors of revival spread—and are doubted
May 14, 2025
Weddings incorporating alternative spirituality into ceremonies
May 14, 2025
Psychedelic churches entering the legal religious market
May 14, 2025
CURRENT RESEARCH
May 14, 2025
Women leaders find central role in indigenous missions
May 14, 2025
Prosperity Gospel goes global
May 14, 2025
LDS in Spain takes on cosmopolitan character through immigration
May 14, 2025
Chinese evangelical churches diverse and growing in France
May 14, 2025
Ukraine war holds implications for Protestants
May 14, 2025
China and Islamists in alliance for the short term?
May 14, 2025
“Ember months” in Nigeria taking on Pentecostal fervor
May 14, 2025
Filipino new religious movements feeling political influence and heat
May 14, 2025
Religion’s cultural mismatch leading to its obsolescence? An interview with Christian Smith
April 10, 2025
Religion getting caught in crossfire of DEI crackdown?
April 10, 2025
Hillsong’s declining influence in church music
April 10, 2025
New Calvinism—from evangelical gatekeeping to tending its own subculture
April 10, 2025
CURRENT RESEARCH
April 10, 2025
Segment of disenchanted Catholics turning to Protestantism in France
April 10, 2025
Kosovo’s Catholic moment?
April 10, 2025
Syrian Christians wary of post-Assad regime and divided on options
April 10, 2025
Conflicts within and between European and American churches over populism, shifts in foreign policy
March 11, 2025
Right-wing “exvangelicals” discarding Jesus’s ethics while retaining the church?
March 11, 2025
Wealthy elites spreading psychedelic ethic into American politics and religion
March 11, 2025
CURRENT RESEARCH
March 11, 2025
Trends among Arab Muslims point beyond revival versus secularization
March 11, 2025
Successful new religious movements take Judaizing turn in Israel?
March 11, 2025
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
March 11, 2025
Uneasy marriage between high-tech and religious traditionalism?
February 14, 2025
Self-generated spirituality by AI?
February 14, 2025
Congregations key in preserving endangered languages
February 14, 2025
Canadian multiculturalism and the return of the “Jewish question”
February 14, 2025
CURRENT RESEARCH
February 14, 2025
Shift in trends in migration and spirituality mark church and culture in the UK
February 14, 2025
Christian music scene bringing together Catholics and evangelicals in France
February 14, 2025
Faith-based protest movement reaches its limits in Armenia
February 14, 2025
Findings & Footnotes
February 14, 2025
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
February 14, 2025
2024 religion mirroring 2023 but casting its own shadow
January 7, 2025
American “cultural Christians”: a new secular-religious hybrid?
January 7, 2025
Anti-natalism as a secular reaction to biotechnology?
January 7, 2025
CURRENT RESERCH
January 7, 2025
Lithuanian Pagans find government recognition, but want more
January 7, 2025
Pentecostal Roma men a “good catch” in Spain
January 7, 2025
Russian Orthodox global South strategy helping the state more than the church?
January 7, 2025
Maintaining secular Jewish identity amidst Judaeophobia in Israel
January 7, 2025
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Syria: can jihadists in power really change?
January 7, 2025
Gradual conversion for Balik-Islam people in the Philippines
January 7, 2025
Daoism incapacitated by China’s Sinicization policies
January 7, 2025
Findings & Footnotes
January 7, 2025
Trump presidency signaling rollback of secularism or rise of irreligious right?
December 18, 2024
Conservative Millennials, Gen Xers versus progressive Baby Boomers in church conflicts?
December 18, 2024
Muslim Rolodex” of informal contacts remains standard for hiring imams
December 18, 2024
Anglican conflicts broach issues of biblical interpretation, church authority
December 18, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
December 18, 2024
Crypto-Armenian youth in Turkey embracing Christian identity
December 18, 2024
Georgian Orthodox state church in the wings?
December 18, 2024
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements, and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
December 18, 2024
Amish work ethic driving upward mobility?
November 12, 2024
Religion not computing for robots for now
November 12, 2024
Faith-based films’ repeated successes and repeated rejections
November 12, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
November 12, 2024
Muslim-majority nations navigate space exploration
November 12, 2024
U.S. unprepared for Islamic State’s revival?
November 12, 2024
Younger generations seek to integrate Salafi Islam into Cambodian society
November 12, 2024
Findings & Footnotes
November 12, 2024
Catholic vote and public discourse endangered?
October 8, 2024
DNA tests spark Jewish reconnections and conversions
October 8, 2024
Schisms finding their way to world Methodism?
October 8, 2024
Cautious acceptance with oversight marks new Vatican policy on Medjugorje, Marian apparitions
October 8, 2024
CURRENT RESEARCH
October 8, 2024
The rise of new left-wing Christians in France
October 8, 2024
Australia’s human rights regime struggling with religious autonomy and accommodation
October 8, 2024

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