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short readsSep 16, 2025

How religious is your state?

Explore our interactive database to find how religious adults are in your state based on service attendance, prayer, belief in God, and importance of religion.
featureFeb 26, 2025

Religious Landscape Study: Database

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.
featureNov 19, 2021

In their own words, how Americans explain why bad things happen

Why is there so much suffering and evil in the world? This question can be particularly confounding for those who believe in a good and all-powerful God, as is often described in the Abrahamic religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For centuries, philosophers and theologians have grappled with this “problem of evil.”
featureFeb 29, 2016

How religious is your state?
reportMar 15, 2005

Differences among Cable Channels (Iraq War Reportage)

Our content analysis also shows measurable differences in what each of the cable networks puts on the air. This study made no attempt to identify bias, or whether one network tilted to the Democrats or Republicans. Some more basic distinctions, however, were evident. Fox was measurably more one-sided than the other networks, and Fox journalists […]
reportJan 4, 2001

What Difference Does Faith Make?

Americans Speak On The Intersection of Faith and Public Life At a time when the president-elect is convening meetings of faith leaders to discuss church-state partnerships and assembling the first ever White House office on faith-based action, Americans have mixed views about the proper relationship between religion and public affairs, according to a new study […]