2+ week, 5+ day ago   (446+ words) Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of over 1,400 teens from Florida between 2010 and 2012. Although the majority…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (638+ words) “Emma,” a young Jewish woman who we met in 2019, didn’t belong to a synagogue. She didn’t have a Jewish partner. She didn’t observe Jewish rituals regularly. On most surveys about religion, she would not seem very engaged with Judaism. But…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1059+ words) In recent days, investigative journalists have accused members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church of mobilising far-right influencers to harass and heckle Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as well as Labor and Greens candidates, during the 2025 federal election campaign. Media reports…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (891+ words) My research has found religious education can encourage critical thinking in children, instil kindness and tolerance, and help expand students’ worldviews....

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (815+ words) One Nation leader Pauline Hanson argues Australia is “predominately a Judeo-Christian society” and should live under “one cultural umbrella”. The term “Judeo-Christian” is shorthand, here, for a set of values that privilege Western culture. As a term, it explicitly excludes…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (857+ words) When I sit down to fill in my first Australian Census in 2026, one question I will be watching closely is a familiar one. Back home in India, “What is your religion?” was never really a question – although it is asked…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (508+ words) By many measures, Americans are growing less religious: Since 2007, for example, the percentage of people who pray daily has dropped, while the “unaffiliated” have grown to 29%. But those numbers can distract from just how much faith still matters in American…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (510+ words) Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to directly contact the deceased. The core foundational belief…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (537+ words) Importantly, even if we don’t believe in free will, our sense of accountability stays intact, according to new research....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (671+ words) For every generation over the last century, Australian women have been more religious than men. But these charts show gen Z is different....