Young adults often question their faith when they see religious intolerance. A recent study shows that while these doubts can ...

When I tell people that I conduct work in the field of evolutionary psychology, a common response is about like this: “Oh, I bet you get a lot of resistance from religious people!” And folks are often ...

Religion often stands alone as separate from the state, but not necessarily separate from psychology, as some graduate students and professors learned last night at the Photonics Center. More than 40 ...

One of my first memories is from church. We always seemed to arrive early enough to say the rosary, but this particular Sunday morning, my mom, brother, and I were late. We double-timed it up the ...

The academic study of religion examines belief, ritual, and religious institutions using tools drawn from multiple disciplines. Sociologists analyze how religion shapes communities and social ...

Elise Ji Young Choe receives funding related to this research from a grant from the John Templeton Foundation on "Intellectual Humility and Religious Leaders." Steven Sandage receives funding related ...

According to social psychologist Roos Vonk, our ego impedes our social relationships and our personal growth. "If you're always trying to be likable, lovable, cool or smart enough, you'll never really ...

Light shines through the doors of Zionskirche, a Protestant church in Berlin. (Busà Photography/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine rates of religious ...