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 ...

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Dexter Voisin, Case Western Reserve University Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences dean, is senior author of two studies that suggests Black teens involved in religious ...

Bosses may be less likely to ask employees to cheat People share many different things at work to try to brighten the drudgery of office life. They append moral quotes to an email signature line. They ...

(RNS) — Church leaders have been facing a grim reality that fewer Americans attend church each year. According to the General Social Survey, in 1972, 29% of American adults reported attending ...

(RNS) — I’m a quantitative scholar of American religion and politics, so I am used to everyone from religion scholars unused to working with data to anxious parents asking me random questions. Those ...

The term “delusion” refers to a strong, consuming belief in something that is untrue. Religious delusions involve beliefs concerning religious ideologies or figures. Religious delusions differ from ...